Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether galleries that are both a retail gallery and have an accredited museum status can open at stage 2 of the Government's lockdown roadmap.

In Step 2 non-essential retail is allowed to reopen. Schedule 2, 13(5)(m) of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021 sets out clearly that in Step 2 indoor attractions at museums and galleries must remain closed, but this does not include retail galleries where the majority of the art on display is for sale.

Indoor attractions at museums and galleries will be able to reopen in Step 3, no earlier than 17 May.