been assessed to make necessary repairs based on the 40 years. just to bring people up to speed who aren t familiar, after hurricane andrew, which was in 1992, building codes in san francisco w south florida wen through a massive overhaul. a survey connected in the early 90s found signs of this building sinking. we obviously still don t know the cause of collapse, but should all buildings in the area built before the 1992 hurricane get inspected again, do you think? that s what i m going to be pushing for. i m a condo-heavy district. i have 560,000 constituents stretching all the way from south miami to the broward county line. and obviously they are susceptible to a disaster like
his constituency and the country. we now come to ian blackford. thank i now come to ian blackford. thank ou, mr now come to ian blackford. thank you, mr speaker. now come to ian blackford. thank you, mr speaker. this now come to ian blackford. thank you, mr speaker. this morning i now come to ian blackford. thank i you, mr speaker. this morning that had herald newspaper revealed that in the middle of the pandemic, tory ministers secretly directed funds from an emergency covid contract to carry out polling on the union. this evidence was uncovered in official documents emitted to the high court. so the prime minister would be well advised to be very careful in his answer to this question. and it is a very simple one. did the uk government use a £560,000 emergency covid contract to conduct constitutional campaigning on the union? mr constitutional campaigning on the union? ~ ., ., union? mr speaker, i m afraid i m not afraid of union? mr speaker, i m afraid i m not afraid of th
because as we say, the high court has found the government acted unlawfully when it gave a contract worth £560,000 to a company run by friends of the prime minister s then chief adviser, dominic cummings. ministers have denied that favouritism was shown towards the market research agency public first. but the judge decided a failure to consider other companies meant there was real danger of bias. public first looked into public understanding of coronavirus. our special correspondent, lucy manning, told us more about the court case. this was a half £1 million contract awarded to a market research agency called public first, it was run by friends of dominic cummings, then the prime minister s chief adviser, and it was challenged to say that it should not have been awarded to this company. the judge found that on two of the accounts, that actually the government had not done anything wrong but on the final account, whether they had shown apparent bias, yes, that was right.
thatis on the help system. the problem with that is that, while the uk government say they have a stockpile of around 5 million doses, almost all of that is astrazeneca, and that is not the vaccine that is being offered to the under 40s. we import around 1.5 million doses of pfizer and moderna a week, but that wouldn t be enough to spread it around all the regions of the uk so the problem is if you surge vaccinations in one area, there possibly isn t the supply available to guarantee that wouldn t mean shortages in other regions. thank ou ve shortages in other regions. thank you very much. shortages in other regions. thank you very much, dominic- shortages in other regions. thank you very much, dominic hughes. | the high court has ruled the government acted unlawfully when it gave a contract worth £560,000 to a company run by friends of borisjohnson s former adviser dominic cummings. the judge said there was a real danger the government s decision to award the work to public first
18 plus, then you can cut the pressure on the health system. the problem with that is that, while the uk government say they have a stockpile of around 5 million doses, almost all of that is astrazeneca, and that is not the vaccine that is being offered to the under 40s. we import around 1.5 million doses of pfizer and moderna a week, but that wouldn t be enough to spread it around all the regions of the uk so the problem is, if you surge vaccinations in one area, there possibly isn t the supply available to guarantee that that wouldn t mean shortages in other regions. we will talk more about that story later, over the course of the afternoon. the high court has found the government acted unlawfully when it gave a contract worth £560,000 to a company run by friends of the prime minister s then chief adviser, dominic cummings. ministers have denied that favouritism was shown towards the market research agency