Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office
Tuesday 23rd June 2020

(4 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The hon. Lady has heard what I have had to say. We will do everything we can to get all such venues—aquariums and seaquariums—open as fast as we can and make them covid compliant. I am sure we can get there.

Julie Marson Portrait Julie Marson (Hertford and Stortford) (Con)
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People and businesses across Hertford and Stortford will rightly welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement. Does he agree that we should also continue to support the development of new technologies and those already in use, such as apps and QR—quick response—codes, which will help many companies, especially those in the arts and technologies sector, and the hospitality sector, to benefit from the measures he has outlined today?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Absolutely. I know I can rely on the incredible ingenuity of every sector in the UK, including the arts, retail and hospitality sectors, to use technology now to bank the changes and to make further progress in taking our economy forward and letting this country bounce back.