division_name: Public Health
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c785.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 3) and (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I., 2021, No. 8), dated <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-05">5 January</phrase> 2021, a copy of which was laid before this House on <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-05">5 January</phrase>, be approved.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c792.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Initial analysis suggests that this variant is growing faster than the existing variants.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-12-14">14 December</phrase> 2020; Vol. 686, c. 23.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c792.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The lesson&#8230;you have to learn about this virus&#8230;is that it&#8217;s important to get ahead of it in terms of actions&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c792.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is highly unlikely that measures with stringency and adherence in line with the measures in England in November&#8230;would be sufficient to maintain R below 1 in the presence of the new variant.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c796.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The virus will always get you if you don&#8217;t move quickly&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c800.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am tired as an NHS employee, I am tired of working beyond my contracted hours because there aren&#8217;t enough staff in work. I am tired of covering for colleagues who are shielding or pregnant and cannot have direct patient contact. I am tired of not having enough equipment to do my job because it is stuck in the supply chain. I am tired of having to tell bereaved women that their whole families cannot visit due to social distancing, I am very tired.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c812.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;England entered the pandemic with its public services in a depleted state and its tax and benefit system regeared to the disadvantage of lower income groups&#8230; The levels of social, environmental and economic inequality in society are damaging health and wellbeing.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c827.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Look after your physical wellbeing: Your physical health has a big impact on how you are feeling emotionally and mentally&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c829.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;So much heartache could have been saved if they had made this decision in a timely manner.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c829.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government has jeopardised public health.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c848.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The government has been completely disinterested in building onshore manufacturing capacity for any of the life-sciences products&#8221;.</p>