I thank the Minister for the statement today, and I'll be supporting these. These are difficult decisions, but we have to acknowledge as well that they are temporary but emergency measures, and their purpose is not only to protect public health, but also, indeed, to try and keep businesses open with the minimum of measures that will protect the public health not only of their customers, but also of their staff as well in those places of work, who do not have a choice. So, it's very difficult, we hope they're as temporary as can be, but we need to get through this winter as well.

I like to bring unusual things in front of the Minister, and I've got an unusual one today. I'm not asking her to intervene or to cast judgment; I just ask her to keep open her diary, because I might need to come back. In the middle of October, two very good football clubs in my area, very good football clubs that not only have adult teams, but also have extensive junior teams as well, were due to play on a Saturday morning in the middle of October. The team was advised on that very morning—that morning—that there were two players that had tested positive. By the end of two or three days later it was seven players. They consulted with the local authority to say, 'What should we do?' The local authority said, 'Do not play the game'. They did not play the game. They have been fined £100 and deducted three points for not playing the game. They have an appeal next week, and we have to leave this proceed, so do not intervene in this yet, Minister. But could she simply say that, in the generality of my enquiry, if a club is advised by local COVID enforcement officers that they should not proceed because some of the team have tested positive, that's exactly the guidance that they should follow, and not risk either their own players, the participants, the people watching on the field or the other team indeed—that they should not play, and play another day instead?