Challenge but i am sure resources are crossed why told me mobilized is for them in maintaining proper standards of accountability while i think it is right for me to call for improvements within government i also want to make a plea to all honorable members to be targeted and considered in the written questions that the table at this time im to avoid swapping departments with questions on fast moving situation which will be superseded before they can be answered i know call the Prime Minister who should speak to know more than 10 minutes of Prime Minister. To mr speaker with michelle make a statement about the next steps in our battle against corona virus and how we can with the utmost caution gradually begin to rebuild our economy and reopen our society for the last 2 months the british people who faced a grave threat with commonsense compassion and unflinching resolve we have together observe the toughest restrictions on our freedoms. In memory changing our way of life on a scale unimaginable only months ago all our efforts have been directed towards protecting our n. H. S. And saving lives tragically many families have lost loved ones before their time and we share their grief yet our shared effort has adversity to a still worse catastrophe one that could have overwhelmed the n. H. S. And claimed half a 1000000 dives every day dedicated doctors nurses and social care workers army medics and more have risked their own lives in the service of others and they have helped to cut the reproduction rate from between 2. 6 and 2. 8 in april to bring your point 5. 9 today the number of coated patients in hospital has fallen by over a 3rd since Easter Sunday our armed forces joined the n. H. S. To build new hospitals on timetables that were telescoped from years to weeks almost doubling the number of Critical Care beds and ensuring that since the end of march at least a 3rd of always being available our challenge now is to find a way forward the preserves our hard won gains but easing the burden of the lock down and ill be candid with the house this is a supremely difficult balance to strike there could be no greater mistake than to jeopardize everything weve striven to achieve by proceeding too far and too fast we will be driven not by hope or economic revival as an end in itself but by data and science and Public Health and so the government is today submitting to the house a plan which is conditional and dependent as always on the common sense and observance of the british people and dont continue reassessment of the data that picture varies across the regions and home nations of the United Kingdom requiring a flexible response different parts of the u. K. May need to stay in full lockdown longer but any divergence should own. The short term because as Prime Minister of the u. K. I am in no doubt that we must defeat this threat and face the challenge of recovery together our progress will depend on meeting 5 essential tests protecting the n. H. S. Reducing both the daily death toll and the infection rate in a sustained way ensuring that testing and p p e can meet future demand a global problem but one that we must fix and avoiding a 2nd peak that would overwhelm the n. H. S. A new u. K. Wide joint bio Security Center will measure our progress with a 5 stage kogut coded alert system and the combined effect of all measures so far has been to prevent us from reaching level 5 a situation that would have been in which the n. H. S. Would have been overwhelmed and to hold us at level full thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the british people by following the social distancing rules were now in a position where we can move in stages to where i hope the scientific advice will tell us that we are down to level 3 but this will only happen if everyone continues to play their part to stay alert and to follow the rules we must also deal with the epidemic in care homes where a tragic number of the elderly and vulnerable have been lost and while the situation is thankfully improving there is a vast amount more to be done and of course we need a world leading system for testing and tracking and tracing victims and their contacts so im delighted that barrenness hobby the chair of n. H. S. Improvement has agreed to take charge of a program that will ultimately enable us to test hundreds of thousands of people every day all this means that we have begun. Our descent from the peak of the epidemic but our journey has reached the most perilous worked very wrong move could be disastrous so at this stage we can go no further than to announce the 1st careful modification of our measures step one in moving towards a coded alert level 38. 00 shift in emphasis that we can begin this week. Anyone who cannot work from home should be actively encouraged to go to work in sectors that are allowed to be open should indeed be open but subject subject to social distancing these include Food Production construction manufacturing the just 6 distribution Scientific Research and to support this and to explain this again were publishing guidance for businesses on how to make these workplaces safe coded secure. People who are able to work from home as we continually said should do so people who cannot work from home should talk to their employers about returning this week and the difficulties that they may or may not have anyone with kobe had symptoms obviously or in a household where someone else has symptoms should so if i say that we want everyone travelling to work to be safe so people should continue to avoid public transport wherever possible because we must maintain social distancing which will inevitably limit capacity instead people should drive or better still walk or cycle. With more activity outside our homes we would now advise people to wear a cloth Face Covering in enclosed spaces where social distancing is not always possible and youre more likely to come in contact with people you dont normally meet the reasons Face Coverings can help to protect each other and reduce the spread of the disease particularly if you have coronavirus like symptoms but this does not mean im a stress this is does not mean wearing medical facemasks 2 are at peace 3 which must be reserved for people who need them. We have all the right so far with onerous restrictions mr speaker on outdoor spaces and exercise and this is and this is where i ive my own brother a friend of dejection said because i know hes a keen swimmer mr speaker and unfortunately we cant do anything for swimming pools but we are we can do something for lakes in the sea and this is where we can go significantly further because the there is a lower risk out from an outdoors than indoors so from wednesday there will be no limits on the frequency of outdoor exercise people can take you can no walk sit and rest in parks you can play sports and exercise and you can do all these things with members of your household and your own household all with one other person from another household provided you observe social distancing and remain 2 metres apart i do hope that is clear mr speaker and im unconscious people to come back and ask questions of it in more detail ill be very happy to answer which will increase the fines for the small minority who break the rules starting at 100 pounds that doubling. With each infringement up to 3600. 00 you can drive as far as you like to reach not to a spate space subject to the same rules and the law and gardens of the devolved administrations and im sorry to say however mr speaker that we should continue to ask those who are clinically vulnerable including pregnant women and people over 70 or those with preexisting chronic conditions to take particular care to minimize contact with those outside their households and we must continue to shield people who are extremely vulnerable they should im afraid remain at home and avoid any direct contact with others i know that easing restrictions for the many will only increase the anguish of those who must remain shielded so the government will look at every possible way of supporting the most vulnerable mr speaker all of our precautions will count for little if our country is reinfected from overseas so i give notice that we shall introduce new restrictions at u. K. Border requiring 14 days of self isolation for International Arrivals while respecting our common travel area with arent every day we shall monitor our progress that if we stay on the downward slope and the are remains below one then and only there when it becomes safe to go further and move to the 2nd step this wont happen. Until the 1st of june at the earliest but we may then be in a position to start the phased reopening of shops to return children to early years settings including nurseries and childminders to return Primary Schools to school in stages giving priority to the youngest children reception and years one and year one and those in year 6 preparing for secondary school and to enable secondary School Pupils face exams next year to get at least some time with their teachers i am dish and i stress this is conditional this is because for all primary School Pupils to return to the classroom for a month before the summer break to this is we are publishing guidance on how schools might reopen safety step 2 could also include allowing cultural and sporting events behind closed doors for broadcast which i think would provide a much needed boost to National Morale but nothing can substitute mr speaker of the human contact and so the governors are sage when and how we can safely allow people to expand their Household Group to include one other household on a strictly reciprocal basis finally mr newt no earlier than july mrs b. Unconscious you wanted me to run into the wind of an i may take 10 minutes to get public crowd to stand it would catch me to speak of would it be in order if i requested that my interrogation could continue for a little bit longer in orbit in order for me to make all these points and that no earlier than july we may be able to move to step 3 if an only if supported by the data and the best scientific advice we would then open aim to aim to reopen aim to it son remain in businesses including potentially hospitality cinemas and addresses as well as places of worship and Leisure Facilities and this will depend on maintaining social distancing and new ways of providing services so we will face and pilot any reopening is to ensure Public Safety and i must be clear again if the data goes the wrong way if the alert level begins to rise we will have. No hesitation in putting on the brakes delaying or reintroducing measures locally regionally or nationally mr speaker our struggle against this virus has placed our country under the kind of strain that will be remembered for generations but so too has the response of the british people so to have written to the british people from dedicated shop workers keeping our supermarkets open and ingenious teachers finding new ways of inspiring their pupils to the kindness of millions who have checked on their neighbors delivered food for the elderly store shing month amounts to charity in these and in so many other ways we are seeing the indomitable spirit of britain and mr speaker let me let me summarize by saying that people should stay alert by working from home if you possibly can by limiting contact with others by keeping your distance to 2 metres apart where possible washing your hands. Or washing your hands regularly and if you or anyone in your household has symptoms you all need to safe to self isolate because if everyone stays alert and follows the rules we can control the virus keep the rate of infection down and keep the number of infections done and that is how we will be able to speak or to save lives and to save livelihoods as we begin to recover from the current virus and i commend this statement to the house what id like to say is to the leader of the opposition please take an extra minutes to thank you through to the opposition kissed on the 6 minutes a thank you mr speaker can i thank the Prime Minister for advance copy of his statement and for advanced copy of the type of the office said through an hour or so ago after taking time to speak to me and other Opposition Leaders yesterday before his speech and can i stop ike knowledge of just how difficult the decisions are that mouthful to be taken we do recognize how difficult they are what the country needs at this time. Its clarity and reassurance but at the moment both are in pretty short supply and at the heart of the problem it seems is the promise to made a Statement Last night before the plan was written or at least finalized and that has caused considerable confusion so yesterday off the new there was a number 10 press release that said for a monday today anyone who cant work from home for instance those in construction manufacturing should be actively encouraged to go to work so its from that but it was today was the start day and that was for construction of manufacturing a few hours later the promise to make the statement there was no express reference to time for. Today in the command document page 25 it says that these policy changes apply from. And the list has been expanded from construction and manufacturing to other sectors so now we have a start date of wednesday in a wider range of sectors that are going back to work on wednesday so far so good one of the key issues and this will be guidelines in place to ensure safety of the workforce they were being consulted on last sunday they were vacant had big gaps it said under protective equipment just said to be inserted or to be added. In the document ive seen it says that workplaces should follow the coated secure guidelines which are humans and guidelines as soon as practicable but under page 20 to 22 it says they will be released later this week so we know were going to some people go back to work on wednesday the guidelines of not being published their parents are going to be released later this week so can i just ask the Prime Minister will look guidelines the safety guidelines be ready for wednesday which realistically means to morrow if workplaces could be ready for them for wednesday morning if not is he seriously asking people to go back to work without the guidelines. Have the guidelines now been agreed with businesses and trade unions that was the attempt was going on sunday a week ago and to the guidelines only pine england. Can i dont turn to getting to work because this is the other issue of some concern the Prime Minister said last night that the the people shouldnt rely on public transport. The command paper now page 26 says the government is working with transport providers to bring Services Back to prek. Bit 1000 levels as soon as possible so bring the service back to their old levels and says social distancing guidelines on public transport must be rigorously followed so ramp up the service new guidelines for social distancing but again we learn from page 2640 those guidelines not ready and theyre coming late in the week well are they coming to morrow ready for wednesday or later in the week because otherwise people will be using public transport operators required to operate to guidelines that dont yet exist and they can use that for england only and have those guidelines been agreed with the transport providers and the relevant trade unions mr speaker one other point about work there is a real concern that the promised might be able to terrify for those that have got childcare responsibilities with schools not going back till june and i understand the conditionality behind that should think it back to work on wednesday or not because theyre in a quandary as to what to do because i did turn to International Travel last night the Prime Minister said in a speech that he was proposing to impose quarantine you know people coming into the country by air. Well given that 100000 people of arrived in the u. K. Since the start of lockdown why is that only being introduced now and is it only for those arriving by air because the command paper now says its for all International Arrivals so does not mean all ports again is that england or the u. K. But it then goes on to say these International Travel measures are the koren see will not come into force on wednesday unlike the other policy changes but will be introduced as soon as possible so whens that going to be. The Prime Minister also said were going to be true by the science the data of Public Health so what is the Scientific Evidence of the Public Health basis behind the measures announced and the stay alert message. And finally the Prime Minister will know that theres not consensus see the old messaging now on policy between the u. K. Government and those in wales scotland Northern Ireland not something id only wanted to see but now were in a position raises serious concerns the real danger of divergence again. This is clear from the document that he provided to me an hour or so ago page 27. 00 says travel to outdoor spaces is now permitted irrespective of distance. We must respect the different rules in scotland wales and Northern Ireland does that mean one can travel to the border but not presumably be on the border where there are differences which makes it foresman extremely difficult and clarity really difficult so what can we do what could he do to ensure that we exit lockdown as one United Kingdom just as we entered it mr speaker 3 lots of questions but so far precious few answers the country neat. People need reassurance above all else they need to in the next 48 hours so can the promise to now please pro