Covid-19 Update Debate
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Steve Brine
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Covid-19 Update
Steve Brine Excerpts(3 years, 6 months ago)
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Sajid Javid
I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that that will happen very soon, and the Secretary of State for Transport will have more to say on this very shortly.
Steve Brine (Winchester) (Con)
Last week, I said that I wanted to see from the new Secretary of State
“a change in policy as much as a change in tone.”—[Official Report, 28 June 2021; Vol. 698, c. 60.]
We have had that today, or at least an indication of it for next Monday, and I am grateful. Will my right hon. Friend give us an insight into his thinking about the future of test and trace? Surely it cannot continue as now, with contacts of contacts—even if they are double-vaccinated—being forced into isolation for 10 days at a time, with all the knock-on effects that that has on society and the economy.
Sajid Javid
I will be making a statement to Parliament on just that issue. I think I will probably make it tomorrow.