Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Laura Farris Excerpts
Monday 2nd November 2020

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The hon. Member makes an excellent point. It is precisely to protect cancer services and to ensure that non-covid patients get access to the treatment they need that we have to put in place the package of measures that we have announced today.

Laura Farris Portrait Laura Farris (Newbury) (Con) [V]
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I understand that the data leaves the Government with no choice but to enter a national lockdown, but given the huge consequences that that entails, can my right hon. Friend give assurances that the new tools at his disposal, particularly the 15-minute tests, will be sufficiently ubiquitous and effective in the coming weeks to avoid any future national lockdown after November?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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That is certainly the intention, and that is why we are massively ramping up the tests in the way that my hon. Friend describes.