Tuesday 20th November 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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We will now have an exemplification of brevity—I call Sir Desmond Swayne.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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Victims are at their most infectious when they are dead. A key intervention in Sierra Leone was burial teams; are they being deployed in the Congo?

Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin
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My right hon. Friend is always a model of brevity. I can assure him that in my perhaps too verbose statement, I drew attention to the fact that we are supporting safe burial practices.