Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what preventive plans he put in place to protect elderly residents in the care home sector from covid-19; and on what date each plan was introduced.

The Government, working with the sector and public health experts, has published a range of guidance on GOV.UK to protect residents in the care home sector from COVID-19. Details of published guidance, publication dates and information on updates is shown in the attached table.

We are constantly reviewing our guidance in line with scientific advice.