Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to reduce infection rates of covid-19 in the context of recent levels of covid-19 hospital admissions.

The Government will retain surveillance to monitor the virus, understand its evolution and identify changes in its characteristics, to make informed decisions and respond appropriately and proportionately. The risk of potential rises in hospitalisations will be managed through routine public health interventions.