Covid-19 Update Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19 Update

Robin Millar Excerpts
Monday 12th October 2020

(4 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I am so sorry for the experience of the hon. Lady’s constituent. She makes a very important point about partners being there for scans. I will look into the matter she raises.

Robin Millar Portrait Robin Millar (Aberconwy) (Con)
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I welcome the Government’s approach to using health, economic and behavioural evidence in reaching their decisions, but a recent poll suggested that only some three quarters of people expected to isolate intended to do so, and that as few as one in five had actually done so. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the key to tackling this pandemic is shared responsibility, not just between national and local government but with every single citizen?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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Indeed. Everybody who is told to self-isolate because they have been in contact with somebody with an index case of covid should remember that there is £500 to help them but also a £10,000 fine if they fail to do so and therefore risk the virus spreading further.