Pandemic Preparedness Debate
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(6 months, 3 weeks ago)
Lords ChamberThe noble Baroness knows better than to shout at another Member when other Members before her are also trying to get in to ask a question.
That is all a part of what I referred to as having a toolkit for a flexible response. The problem always in these things is that you tend to fight the next war on what happened in the last one. We have to be careful in what we do and that we are not trying to fight the next pandemic on the last one, because inevitably it will be different. Having a flexible and scalable response, including communications, is vital.