Today I want to begin with the good news: the approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine which is a fantastic achievement for British science And which will allow us to vaccinate more people, and also vaccinate them more quickly. And there is one impo… read more
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The government has today, Wednesday 30 December, responded to rapidly rising case rates due to the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus by triggering the education contingency framework and pushing back the staggered return for secondary sch… read more
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement regarding our plans for bringing children back to school this academic term. Dealing with this pandemic has always been an exercise in managing risk. Throughout, we have been adamant that t… read more
Mr Speaker, today marks a great stride forward in our plan to get us out of this pandemic and return to normal life. Our strategy throughout has been to supress the virus until a vaccine can make us safe. Supressing the virus has got a whole lot harde… read more