On 25th March 2021, the House of Lords debated a report on the COVID-19 pandemic. A vote was held on a regret motion associated with the debate, in which a Bishop took part.
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The Bishop of St Albans took part in a vote on a regret motion moved by Baroness Brinton:
Baroness Brinton moved that this House expresses its sorrow at the 126,000 deaths in the United Kingdom caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; regrets that Her Majesty’s Government failed to learn the lessons from the earlier stages of the pandemic in order to prepare for the winter of 2020/21 and is therefore continuing to treat each development as a new public health emergency; further regrets that some of the powers in the Coronavirus Act 2020 have caused confusion amongst police and prosecutors, leading to more than 252 people being wrongfully charged; further regrets that despite provision for payments to the self-employed and those self-isolating, too many have been unable to claim payments due to the rules; regrets that the one year status report was presented to Parliament only three days before debate, along with substantial Regulations for the House to consider at the same time; and therefore calls on Her Majesty’s Government to publish a comprehensive plan to manage surges in cases through quarantine, test, trace and isolate to prevent the importation and increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 and any new variants.
The motion was disagreed. Content: 119 / Not Content: 279
The Bishop of St Albans voted Content.
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