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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update and Hospitality Curfew

"It does seem strange to think that concentrating trade in a smaller number of hours and making everyone leave a pub or restaurant at the same time, rather than spacing them out over the course of the evening, should suppress rather than spread the virus. Will the Secretary summarise the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Sep 2020
Covid-19

"It is a pleasure to see the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) back in her place safe and well. I am sure that all of us welcome her back to the House. Seven months and 42,000 deaths after the first person in the UK died from …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Sep 2020
Covid-19 Update

"The scientific evidence is that covid is detectable by test within seven days of someone being infected, so why should people who have been made to self-isolate not be tested seven days after a possible infection and released if they test negative?..."
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Written Question
Travel: Coronavirus
Wednesday 16th September 2020

Asked by: Greg Clark (Conservative - Tunbridge Wells)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when covid-19 testing capacity will be sufficient to allow the testing of all travellers to and from the UK.

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

Our primary focus is symptomatic people to ensure that everyone who needs a test can get one, therefore NHS Test and Trace tests are not currently available for testing to reduce the self-isolation period for international arrivals. National Health Service testing capacity is reserved for testing symptomatic people in the United Kingdom, with any spare capacity being used to where most clinically effective.

Work is ongoing with clinicians, the devolved administrations and the travel industry to consider if and how testing could be used to reduce the self-isolation period, but any potential change would need to minimise the chance that positive cases are missed, and maximise compliance with self-isolation rules.

Written Question
Home Care Services: Coronavirus
Monday 14th September 2020

Asked by: Greg Clark (Conservative - Tunbridge Wells)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to introduce regular covid-19 testing for asymptomatic domiciliary care workers.

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

Asymptomatic testing for domiciliary care workers (also known as home care workers) will be guided by the results from the Public Health England prevalence study into domiciliary care. This study found that COVID-19 prevalence among domiciliary care workers was similar to prevalence in the general population. We are currently reviewing the implications for asymptomatic testing in domiciliary care.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Sep 2020
Covid-19 Update

"The Secretary of State must accept that there is a problem here. Constituents of mine in Kent displaying symptoms of covid were this week advised to go for tests in Bude in Cornwall and Galashiels in Scotland—and this is in a mild September, before the autumn and winter when people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Jul 2020
Coronavirus Response

"As my right hon. Friend knows, if we are to suppress the virus, we need an agile and vigorous response. Six weeks ago, I asked him to ensure that tests were available to elderly residents not only of care homes but in sheltered accommodation and retirement villages. Three weeks ago, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Covid-19 Update

"The Secretary of State is assiduous and energetic in making himself available to answer questions at all times, and I am grateful that he has agreed to come before my Committee next week so that we have longer than we would have had today given this statement. In March, we …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2020
Coronavirus Update

"Asymptomatic workers in care homes are now tested every week. Asymptomatic workers in hospitals are not. Why not?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Jun 2020
Covid-19 Update

"As the Secretary of State said, speed is of the essence in responding to the pandemic. However, on 8 June, in the Chamber, I asked my right hon. Friend to intervene immediately to correct the situation that elderly people and people with physical and learning disabilities in supported and sheltered …..."
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