Thank you for contacting me expressing your understandable concerns about recent news stories around Dominic Cummings. As a Minister, I have been fortunate enough to be able to communicate the sentiment of these directly to senior people at the head of Government.

I refrained from making comment initially, as experience has taught me to wait for facts to emerge before being tempted, as a Member of Parliament, to comment and so have followed the events of the past ten days carefully.

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