Non-stop sunshine is ensuring that morale remains as high as possible during this lock-down. It's typical, though, that the moment the sun comes out, we can't. There is a growing number of MPs and commentators who are beginning to question this lock-down. They are not doing so in a critical way, but simply trying to engender debate on a way out of all this. First thing this morning, I again took part in a conference call with Dorset Council and fellow Dorset MPs. The council and the team there are doing an outstanding job and I pay credit to the Leader, Cllr Spencer Flower, and CEO Matt Prosser. Cool and calm under pressure, they and their teams are doing all they can to help residents, some of whom are facing truly dire times. I then watched PMQs on the parliamentary channel, which sounded and looked surreal. I thought Dominic Raab, standing in for the PM, did well, while Sir Keir Starmer's questions were legitimate and probing. I'm afraid, though, I do not trust the latter. For here is a man who said he would respect the EU referendum result and then spent more than three years trying to derail it, and no one should forget that. At 1400 I logged into our first on-line Defence Select Committee. It went surprisingly well. We took oral evidence from four distinguished guests: the Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Air Marshal Richard Knighton CB, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Financial and Military Capability), MoD Angus Lapsley, Director General Strategy and International, MoD Lieutenant General James Swift OBE, Chief of Defence People. The session lasted for more than two hours and Mr Wallace gave a confident performance. The questions were wide ranging, from the military's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to the on-going issue of historic allegations from N Ireland and overseas' operations. The full script will be on Hansard. Funnily enough, I, personally, found the session more tiring than I expected. Listening intently to someone on a lap-top is very different to doing so in person. Meanwhile, the Government's chief medical adviser, Professor Chris Whitty, warned that the UK would have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year. He added that it would be "wholly unrealistic" to expect life to suddenly return to normal soon and that "in the long run" the ideal way out would be via a "highly effective vaccine" or drugs to treat the disease. So far as care homes are concerned, the Care Quality Commission, which regulates care homes in England, has produced preliminary data for April 11-15 that suggests there were 1,000 further deaths linked to COVID-19. The ONS data released on Tuesday showed there had been 1,043 people linked to COVID-19 in England and Wales. Professor Whitty said that it was hard to prevent deaths in care homes "sadly because this is a very vulnerable group". The NHS is testing its forthcoming COVID-19 contact-tracing app at a Royal Air Force base in North Yorkshire. It works by using Bluetooth signals to log when smartphone owners are close to each other - so if someone develops COVID-19 symptoms, an alert can be sent to other users they may have infected. Finally, a cautionary tale as we all rely more and more on virtual gatherings. The Welsh health minister was caught swearing about a Labour colleague in a virtual Welsh Assembly session after he left his microphone on by mistake. Lesson: mute that button unless contributing!