Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the advice of the SAGE Environmental and Modelling Group on the potential application of air cleaning devices and personal decontamination to manage transmission of covid-19 has been updated since it was published on 4 November 2020.

A summary paper by the Environmental and Modelling Group (EMG) on ventilation actions to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 was published on 18 December 2020 and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emg-simple-summary-of-ventilation-actions-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-covid-19-1-october-2020

There have been no papers on the application of air cleaning devices and personal decontamination to manage transmission of COVID-19 published by the EMG since 4 November 2020.