Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Jane Hunt Excerpts
Monday 12th October 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I do not know whether £190 billion counts as a promissory note or empty rhetoric, but that is what the Chancellor has provided so far in support. I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman says about local responses. That is entirely right, and we are certainly looking for locally led responses to help us to get the virus down.

Jane Hunt Portrait Jane Hunt (Loughborough) (Con)
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Could the Prime Minister say how we can use the three-tier system to enable all types of businesses to use a risk assessment base to their operation to help them remain open and fully working in all but the very high-tier instances?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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All businesses that are covid-secure should be able to keep going, and I hope that they will.