Much to the waiting press's disappointment, Health Secretary Matt Hancock hit his 100,000 test target and also claims to have exceeded it. I am not one for setting targets, as you tend to set yourself up to fail, but this one does appear to have galvanized all those concerned into action and well done Mr Hancock and team for reaching it. My day began with the regular conference call to our council, which lasted nearly 90 minutes. There was a lot to discuss and both councillors and officials, and parliamentary colleagues, all continue to make extremely valuable contributions. Next was my daily staff conference call and again this ensures that we are all working from the same hymn sheet on a wide range of constituency issues. I then dialled in to a conference call with FCO minister Nigel Adams. He updated us on the repatriation of our citizens, which continues to go well. Today, we were told, there were nine flights in the air from countries including India, Pakistan, Nigeria, New Zealand and Cyprus. And 20,000 passengers from 16 cruise ships were now back home. I asked the minister about the discrepancy in the price of return tickets being charged by some airlines and why people were still coming into the UK from COVID-19 countries, seemingly unchecked. On the first, Mr Adams said that, where the Government had organised flights, ticket prices were capped. For example, flights of between 6-10 hours cost £600; and over 10 hours cost £800. On the second point, I was not too clear on the answer. Mr Adams did say that all those coming into the country had to meet PHE guidelines, but he did not expand any further than that. Still, it was a most helpful session and many colleagues had constituents stuck all over the world, some with serious health issues. Regrettably, this long call meant I missed the one with Defra Secretary George Eustice. As I've mentioned, many rural MPs are concerned for their farmers, especially dairy farmers, but later I caught up with Neil Parish MP, who chairs the Defra Select Committee, when he kindly attended our quarterly meeting of Dorset farmers. We had an hour together before Neil and I had to leave to test out the new virtual voting system, which worked this time, at least for me it did. Back to the national picture and the Government has scrapped VAT on purchases of personal protective equipment for the next three months in a bid to help charities, care homes and businesses which rely on it. We also learnt that Rugby League was to receive a loan of £16 million from the Government because of the coronavirus outbreak. It appears that this virus is beginning to lose its hold and more and more people are talking about going back to work. I went to our local Homebase store in Blandford in the afternoon and congratulate the staff for opening up. One man looked at me and said: "Thank God. We're so grateful to be back at work." That's the way forward.