Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to widen the scope of exemptions for quarantine on compassionate grounds to include people who have recently suffered a bereavement.

We have no current plans to do so. However, it is possible to request permission to leave managed quarantine for a limited period if a close family member or member of an individual’s household is dying. It is also possible to request permission to attend a funeral.