Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish the scientific (a) advice and (b) evidence provided to SAGE on covid-19.

Transparency, including on the evidence informing the views of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), is vital in helping to maintain the public’s trust and grow our collective understanding of the disease, while also helping to explain how scientific advice to the Government is being formed. The Government is working to publish evidence documents and studies which have formed the basis of SAGE’s discussions and advice, on issues including the lockdown and prevalence, to Ministers regularly and will publish more evidence in the coming weeks.