Covid-19 Update Debate
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Ben Bradshaw
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Covid-19 Update
Ben Bradshaw Excerpts(3 years, 1 month ago)
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Sajid Javid
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point to the non-covid impact of these measures, which I mentioned earlier. She is right to point to emotional distress and mental health issues, but I hope she agrees that, for the reasons I set out earlier, if we do not take these measures, the impact on the very people about whom she rightly cares deeply could be especially challenging.
Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)
Following the Secretary of State’s answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Tahir Ali), given that omicron is now spreading rapidly here, what is the point in maintaining his damaging travel restrictions a day longer?
Sajid Javid
As I mentioned earlier, we will keep that under review.