Covid-19: Road Map Debate

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Covid-19: Road Map

Graham Brady Excerpts
Monday 22nd February 2021

(3 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Graham Brady Portrait Sir Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West) (Con)
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I welcome very strongly the reopening of schools. After what we have put them through over the past year, it is time we prioritised the interests of our children and young people. The Prime Minister sets out a programme based on data, not dates, and that must be right, but will he please publish the precise criteria for each of those stages to be met? Finally, when the renewal of emergency powers is due, will he undertake to bring that vote to the House before the Easter recess and not after?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes indeed: there is going to be a massive data dump—I think that is the word I have been quoted today. Some colleagues may already have seen some of the data that is available, underpinning the road map that we have set out. There will of course be another vote in this House about these measures before Easter, and then those measures, in turn, elapse on 21 June in the way that I have described.