Covid-19: Winter Plan Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19: Winter Plan

Vicky Foxcroft Excerpts
Monday 23rd November 2020

(3 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend will have seen or heard several times the criteria that we are using to decide which tiers people should go into. The inverse is obviously true and everybody now has several exit routes. There is obviously the vaccine and obeying the tiering system scrupulously, but also the possibility now of mass testing—get a test as a community, kick covid out and reduce the restrictions you face.

Vicky Foxcroft Portrait Vicky Foxcroft (Lewisham, Deptford) (Lab) [V]
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On 12 October, I asked the Prime Minister if he would ensure that British Sign Language was available at future press conferences. He said:

“the point is registered.”—[Official Report, 12 October 2020; Vol. 682, c. 39.]

Registered, but not delivered. Six weeks since that question and eight months since the start of the pandemic, there is still no progress on a sign language interpreter. Will the Prime Minister meet me and others, who rely on sign language interpretation, to work out a solution so that Government communication is inclusive of all disabled people?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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I certainly will make sure that the hon. Member’s delegation is properly received and that we try to come up with a solution.