Covid-19: Self-isolation Payment Scheme Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Covid-19: Self-isolation Payment Scheme

Baroness Warsi Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd September 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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My Lords, I do not see that there is a parallel between the two.

Baroness Warsi Portrait Baroness Warsi (Con) [V]
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My Lords, what current criteria are the Government using to determine local lockdowns? In the light of reports from Manchester today, what improvements, if any, have been made in the area of local consultation and the imposition of a local lockdown since the decisions of 30 June in Leicester?

Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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My Lords, a huge amount of data, both national and local, gets put into the local lockdown process during the gold meetings of the JBC. The liaison between gold and local authorities and local MPs has been improved and upgraded massively in the last few weeks. I cannot share any update from the JBC meetings today.