Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to ask the representative bodies of bailiffs to instruct their members to suspend evictions during the period of new national covid-19 lockdown from 5 November 2020 to help prevent the transmission of covid-19; and if he will make a statement.

The Lord Chancellor wrote to the High Court Enforcement Officers Association on 5 November to request that they ask their members not to enforce evictions other than in a limited number of the most serious circumstances during the period of time that the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No.4) Regulations 2020 are in force.