Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total number of (a) people who are at high risk of severe illness from covid-19 and (b) people in their households.

In England, it is estimated that the number of patients eligible for COVID-19 therapies in the community to reduce the risk of serious illness and hospitalisation, is more than 1.3 million people. No specific estimate on the number of people in these households has been made.