Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Jessica Morden Excerpts
Monday 2nd November 2020

(3 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I cannot say often enough that this is a time-limited lockdown and it ends on 2 December unless this House decides to extend measures of one kind or another. Any further measures will be a matter for this House, and it is fully my intention that the lockdown should end on 2 December.

Jessica Morden Portrait Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab) [V]
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May I echo the frustration expressed by hon. Friends representing Welsh constituencies that the Prime Minister acted on furlough only when setting out England-wide action? As he has not explicitly said this, will he confirm that furlough support will be backdated in Wales? What funding will come to Wales as a result of the business grant support announced on Saturday?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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We will continue to support all parts of the UK, as we have throughout this crisis.