Even more familiar practices.

We're now going over to Pete Herbal when other banks going to act in the national interest.

Acting president often his prime.

I think the first secretary get the best.

Many ask their questions from their constituency homes.

David Mendell.

We've been unable to connect care.

Start in the chamber for his first question time.

The new Labour leader, pressing the government on its pledge to reach 100,000 coated 19 tests a day by the end of the month.

So we're way behind the curve in the end of the month is a week tomorrow.

So what does the first secretary expect to happen in the next eight days to get us from 18,000 test today?

200,000 test today?

Of course, he's right to say that in the final week that will require a big increase.

But of course, with a project like this, it does require an exponential increase in the final days.

In the final week off the program, Labour accused the government of not taking up manufacturers offers to make personal protective equipment the NHS.

Any other failings, too.

Something's going wrong.

It's a pattern emerging here.

We were slow into lock down, slow on testing, slow on protective equipment and now slow to take up these office for British firms.

I don't accept his premise that we've been slow.

We have Bean guided by the scientific advice, the chief scientific adviser, the chief medical officer at every step.

Along this way.

If he thinks he knows better than they do with the benefit of hindsight, then that's his decision.

But that is not the way we proceeded.

Andi.

It is not the way we will in the future.

8000 businesses have offered.

PeopIe, in response to the government's call on every business, received a response.

One such company, Network Medical, told the government it could make face shields.

It got in touch at the end of March and got a reply at 7 30 this morning, a box standard automated acknowledgement.

In the meantime, it supplied a chain of UK private hospitals.

Unfortunately, we have not had anything still from the UK NHS, and the problem is that if we don't have anything soon from them, then will either have to stop manufacturing because there'll be no demand or we'll have to supply to customers outside of the UK where we've had interests as well.

But obviously we want to keep this in the UK The health secretary became the first minister to declare that Britain had reached the peak of the coronavirus epidemic.

He told the Commons that the NHS now had 10,000 free beds for routine care and routine surgery would resume shortly.

I just want to thank everyone from across the country for their steadfast commitment in following the rules, including in this house.

It is making a difference.

We are at the peak but the Downing Street press conference a warning.

We are a long way from the vaccine or miracle drug that will allow a return to normal until we have those on the probability of having those anytime in the next calendar year are incredibly small and I think we should be realistic about that.

We're gonna have to rely on other social measures which of course are very socially disruptive.

Last night, a delivery of personal protective equipment arrived on our air plane from Turkey.

Questions persisted about why Britain had not taken up an invitation to join an you joint procurement exercise by medical kit to help deal with Kovar.

19.

Yesterday, the top official Foreign Office told MPs it had Bean a political decision.

Last night, he sent a letter to MP saying there was no such decision in the UK simply did not receive an invitation in time to join in the U procurement schemes.

You can smell these things that didn't look like a letter he'd spontaneously written himself, did it?

I'm sure they will have been conversations.

Philip Rycroft used to run the department planning for Brexit.

Today he's joined other ex White or Grandes, saying the covert 19 crisis means the government must drop its commitment to leave the post Brexit transition of the end of December to compound that uncertainty at first sight to say to British businesses in particular, we can't tell you what the relationship will be with the U at the end of this year is taking a very big risk that does no look sensible from an economic perspective.

Do you struggle to imagine a British government actually doing going through with it at a time like this?

I I frankly, I do struggle with that Previous you procurement rounds of included testing equipment.

You says Britain was fully aware of all of them.

Despite saying they were not communicated.

The government says it does now want to be part of future procurement rounds, just as the chief government medical advisers signals challenges of this crisis will be with us for a long time yet.