Skip to main content
Banner image for

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About Graham
  • Articles and Speeches
  • Videos
  • Gallery
  • In Parliament
  • Links
  • Contact

Brady intervenes in Commons over rule of six

  • Tweet
Wednesday, 7 October, 2020

Helen Whately

 Share

I will just move on as I am conscious that I have taken quite a number of interventions—

  Share

Sir Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West) (Con)

 Not from me.

  Share Helen Whately

 Share

Okay then.

 Sir Graham Brady

 Share

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. We are three weeks in and we know that a different model is being applied in Scotland. At what point would she expect to be able to form a judgment as to whether the Scottish approach, excluding young children from the rule of six, is less effective, as effective, or more effective than that in England?

 

 Share 

Helen Whately

  I have a personal perspective, as I have a household of five and am therefore well aware that the rule of six can make socialising quite difficult for families. For instance, my own family now cannot get together either with both my parents or my husband’s parents. I very much appreciate the difficulty of this restriction, although the majority of households are slightly smaller and are not finding it as difficult as my own or other larger households. We are keeping this and all measures under review. The Government clearly ​do not want to introduce restrictions if we do not need to do so. What is crucial is that restrictions are effective, so we are looking at all the evidence, including where and how the virus is being transmitted—whether that is in households, in people’s own homes, through meeting up with other households or in hospitality settings—and we will continue to do so. But in answer to my hon. Friend’s question, I cannot give a date or a specific “This will be the moment at which it would happen.”

 

 

  • Local News

You may also be interested in

Cambridge Union Debate

Graham Brady takes part in Cambridge Debate

Tuesday, 9 February, 2021

Graham Brady has taken part in a Cambridge Union debate entitled 'Lockdown was a mistake.;

https://youtu.be/C8fBJ_03-E4

 

Show only

  • Articles
  • Local News
  • Media
  • Opinions
  • Speeches
  • Speeches in Parliament
  • Westminster News
  • Written Questions News

Graham Brady MP for Altrincham and Sale West

Footer

  • About RSS
  • Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • About Graham
Promoted by Victoria Lowther on behalf of Graham Brady, both at Portcullis House, House of Commons SW1A 0AA
Copyright 2021 Graham Brady MP for Altrincham and Sale West. All rights reserved.
Powered by Bluetree