Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much additional funding his Department will provide for local authorities per clinically vulnerable person in their council area for the duration of the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown in England.

On Monday 12 October, the Prime Minister confirmed around £1 billion of new funding will be made available to councils across England with over £900 million of this funding provided to councils for their ongoing work to support vulnerable people and local communities during the pandemic. This brings the total funding given directly to councils during the pandemic, so far, to £6.4 billion.

In addition to this, MHCLG will provide councils with over £32 million to support Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) people. This is intended to help those who do not otherwise have a support network to access food and meet other needs, enabling CEV individuals to stay at home as much as possible. Councils will also have access to the NHS volunteer responders to assist them in this role.