Matt Hancock has committed to making an announcement on whether the government will review all penalty fines imposed on families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown. The health secretary was responding to a question from a member of the public a day after Dominic Cummings made a statement on his trip to Durham after the beginning of lockdown in the UK
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