Covid-19 Update

Peter Gibson Excerpts
Thursday 10th September 2020

(3 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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We are giving local authorities more enforcement powers—for instance, to be able to close venues should that be necessary on public health grounds. We will set out more details of the marshals shortly.

Peter Gibson Portrait Peter Gibson (Darlington) (Con)
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What revisions to the technology supporting the booking of testing can be undertaken to match local demand more closely to local supply?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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That is something we work on constantly. It is not always perfect, as this questions session attests, but it is something we are constantly working on to try to minimise the distance that people travel. The team have done a good job of getting that distance down to 6.4 miles, not least with the roll-out of dozens of new testing sites every week, but there is always more work to do.