Up to London for another week in the Commons. There were a number of Statements before the business of the day and I attended the one by Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who gave an update on the new variant, Omicron. He said that there was community transmission of the variant in multiple regions of England. He added the variant was continuing to spread "here and around the world" and there were now cases here "with no links to international travel". There have been 336 confirmed cases of the highly-mutated variant across the UK, a rise of 90 from Sunday. Encouragingly, when asked how many of these were in hospital, the answer was 'none'. Lady May rose to her feet and belted out a fiery question, or should I say statement. In short, she said we couldn't stop living our lives every time a new variant appeared. I agree. I asked Mr Javid how prepared and ready we were to deal with new variants, as I'd heard an eminent physician on Radio 4 say that this was an area of concern for him. My question and the reply is on the website. I had a most useful meeting with the PM's PPS, the charming Sarah Dines, and hope to meet the PM soon to push for money for Dorset. After the House had dealt with Lords' amendments to the Armed Forces Bill, we dropped to a one-line whip at about 2110. In other news, the government said it was to provide rehabilitation for 300,000 drug users who carried out half of all shop thefts, robberies and burglaries. Ministers announced that a 10-year drugs strategy would allocate £780m in funding for the drug treatment system in England. It also included £300m for combating more than 2,000 county lines gangs. The government said that in some cases casual drug users might lose their driving licences or passports. Finally, a pair of Met Police constables who took photos of two murdered sisters and shared the images on WhatsApp groups were jailed for 33 months. PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis were sent to guard the scene where the bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found in June 2020. While at Fryent Country Park, they left their post to take photos of the women. What the men did was a "betrayal of catastrophic proportions", the sisters' mother said in an impact statement.