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• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Léonie Cooper AM: Actually, Chair, sorry, I am just swapping with Dr Sahota because he has a couple of things that will run more smoothly if he takes them both together. Navin Shah AM (Chair): No problem at all. Thank you. Léonie Cooper AM: It is Assembly Member Cooper here. It is good to see you, Alderman Zahawi. I have sat in front of that sign for some time. My concern is, of course, about the new strains because Pollards Hill in Merton is one of the areas. We are obviously getting 10,000 tests done in a very local area...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 04 February 2021

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: Minister, thank you for coming and joining us this morning. The success of any vaccination programme relies on the willingness of people to actually have the vaccine. When trust was lost on the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine we knew that the uptake plummeted, and, as you know, we need to get over 80% of the population vaccinated to get herd immunity. You also know that trust is a social contract between two parties, in this case the Government and the people. While the people trust the scientists and the doctors, the Government has often...