Covid-19 Update Debate
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Ruth Cadbury
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Covid-19 Update
Ruth Cadbury Excerpts(4 years, 8 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
If there are specific concerns about the non-delivery of PPE to council settings, I want to know about them through the hotline that we have set up precisely to short-circuit such problems having to be brought to my attention on the Floor of the House. Let us fix them directly. On the second point, it has got to be the right stuff according to the clinical guidelines.
Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
We have been told that by the time covid-19 peaks, 44,000 women will need access to early medical abortions. Women should not have to leave their homes during lockdown to access basic healthcare, so will the Secretary of State commit not to oppose moves in the other place to enable individual healthcare practitioners to certify abortions and to reinstate the regulations that were put up for a short while on the Government website last night, so that we can have use of abortion medication and one practitioner being able to prescribe on the phone?
Matt Hancock
There are no proposals to change the abortion rules due to covid-19.