Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his Department's policy to publish regional R rates at the Government's daily covid-19 update.

There is no plan to publish regional R numbers at the Government daily COVID-19 updates because they have now come to an end.

Estimates of R are produced on a weekly basis and published by the Government Office for Science. The current range of R for the United Kingdom and NHS England regions are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-publishes-latest-r-number