Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Lee Anderson 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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On this matter, Mr Speaker, I defer to you and the House authorities.

Lee Anderson Portrait Lee Anderson (Ashfield) (Con)
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My constituents in Ashfield have worked incredibly hard to obey all the rules and guidelines to keep covid at bay. I am therefore deeply disappointed that we have found ourselves in the same lockdown situation as Nottingham, where rates are eight times higher. We are not in tier 3, as I first feared, but that is not a fair reward for my constituents. Can my right hon. Friend please assure me that our rates will be reviewed on a weekly basis, and that when they come down we will be taken out of tier 2?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I thank my hon. Friend for representing his constituents well in the way he does. Of course, we will make sure that we regularly review the measures for his constituency, and indeed for every constituency in this country.