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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Dec 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I join my right hon. Friend in wishing NHS staff and everyone in this crisis a happy Christmas. Will he join me in wishing Essex County Council and local authorities in Essex a happy Christmas for what they have contributed to the test, track and trace operation since NHS Test …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement, albeit that it contains a lot of very grim news about the virus itself and its effect on many areas. It will be greeted with considerable relief in Harwich, Clacton, Colchester and Uttlesford, where the virus rates are much lower and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Dec 2020
Coronavirus Vaccine

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on this moment and the Government on the news about the Pfizer vaccine, but please can we continue to have increased honesty about what we still do not know? We do not know how long the immunity will last, we do not even know …..."
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Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Wednesday 25th November 2020

Asked by: Bernard Jenkin (Conservative - Harwich and North Essex)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pooled sample testing for covid-19 is being used in (a) the UK and (b) areas of the UK where covid-19 infections are deemed to be recorded as low; and what assessment he has made of the contribution of experiences of pooled sample testing in (i) Uruguay, (ii) Rwanda, (iii) the US, (iv) Germany, (v) South Korea and (vi) India to (A) increasing the understanding of the covid-19 pandemic spread and (B) reducing the number of covid-19 required to help reduce that pandemic spread.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

A clinical validation study has commenced at a small number of testing sites, which aims to clinically validate pooling for use on the National Testing Programme. There is also a programme about to begin at Cambridge University that we plan to monitor closely. All individuals are asked in advance if they would like to take part in this clinical validation study with the context and reasoning for the study provided. The test result for the individual is unaffected by the clinical validation study being performed.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Nov 2020
Covid-19 Update

"My right hon. Friend’s strategy is, as he keeps reporting to the House, to “suppress the virus” until a vaccine can be deployed, but this is still beset by so many uncertainties. Who would have thought that mink in Denmark could throw a spanner into this situation? Is the tracing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2020
Covid-19

"If I may just respond to the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands), I do not feel that this House is ignoring Scotland; I feel that this House has voted for very large sums of extra money to be devoted to Scotland. But perhaps my Government need …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"Most of the MPs in Essex have reluctantly felt the need to support the tier 2 measures that are now being applied, but we are very concerned about the effect of this on the hospitality sector, in particular. Is it not very important that we align the economic interests of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"Nobody can possibly doubt my right hon. Friend’s utter commitment to doing his very best in these circumstances, or indeed the good will and hard work of his officials, but this is another incident that further undermines public confidence in the delivery of the Government’s covid response, and it is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 30 Sep 2020
Coronavirus Act 2020 (Review of Temporary Provisions)

"Yesterday, as Chair of the Liaison Committee, I signed a letter to the Prime Minister to focus the scrutiny of the various Select Committees on two issues: one was the need to galvanise test and trace, and the other was the need to improve the scrutiny of coronavirus measures that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Sep 2020
Covid-19 Update

"At a time when we do not yet have the world-beating track and trace system or enough tests because of logistical problems, why are the Government excluding senior military commanders from key decision making and preventing them from bringing to bear their logistical capabilities?..."
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