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Proceeding contribution from Matt Hancock (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 October 2020. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Covid-19 Update and Hospitality Curfew.


Covid-19 Update and Hospitality Curfew

The scientific advice is that the people who are closer together are more likely to spread the virus and that, later at night, social distancing becomes harder. We have all seen the pictures of people leaving pubs at 10 o’clock, but otherwise they would be inside the establishments, and we all know that outside is safer, or they would be leaving later. Of course we keep this under review and of course we are constantly looking at how we can improve these policies, but I think that we have to look at both sides of the evidence to try to get this right.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
681 c509 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Curfews Liverpool Quarantine Hartlepool Middlesbrough Warrington Bolton Deloitte Coronavirus Hospitality industry Social distancing Contact tracing
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on hansard.parliament.uk