Living with Covid-19 Debate

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Living with Covid-19

Robert Jenrick Excerpts
Monday 21st February 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Yes, of course they do, and this plan is completely scientifically attested to. It is the right thing to do.

Robert Jenrick Portrait Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con)
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I thank my right hon. Friend for his important statement, and for the reassurance that he provided in it for the clinically extremely vulnerable. The Government took huge steps to support those individuals by, for instance, creating the shielding programme that delivered millions of food boxes to people’s doors within a matter of weeks. It is absolutely right that we continue to stand by and support those people into the future with testing and with antivirals, as my right hon. Friend has already said today.

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My right hon. Friend is quite right in what he says about the plan, and I thank him for his outstanding work, when he was responsible for local government, in helping to deliver those parcels and helping to support people in the way that he did.