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Rupa Huq Excerpts

Monday 7th September 2020 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Will everybody be brief now? I call Dr Rupa Huq.

[Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)]

This in-out, hokey cokey of on-off air bridges and quarantine comes without interruption. Passengers have landed at Heathrow and gone straight on to the Piccadilly line through Ealing and Acton, which is now a petri dish—we have an above-average virus rate—so can he please stop playing politics and give Transport for London the bail-out that it deserves at a time of national crisis to save the whole of London and my constituents from that second spike?

[Grant Shapps]

I congratulate the hon. Lady on shoehorning TfL into all this. I know that we will be having further conversations, but if memory serves me right, I have already bailed it out to the tune of £1.6 billion.