Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to bring guidance for wearing face masks in care homes in line with (a) hospitals and (b) other health care settings.

As of 15 December 2022, adult social care guidance has been amended to support a risk-based approach to mask wearing and align with hospitals and other health care settings. This has replaced previous guidance which stated face masks should be worn at all times in adult social care.