Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Gareth Davies Excerpts
Monday 12th October 2020

(3 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I note the ideological scorn of any private sector work, which I thought I had left the Labour party these days, but does not seem to have done. I share the hon. Gentleman’s veneration of local authorities, as a creature of local government myself, and that is why we have given an extra £3.7 billion to support local authorities in this crisis. As I told the House just now, there is a billion more to come.

Gareth Davies Portrait Gareth Davies (Grantham and Stamford) (Con)
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Lincolnshire is a vast rural county with many large towns. Can the Prime Minister assure me that any future restrictions and measures imposed on my county will be as targeted as possible and be made together with Lincolnshire County Council leadership?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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It is the burden of what I am saying today that we want to do everything in co-operation with local leaders and local authorities.