Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the metrics that would trigger a local lockdown due to covid-19.

There are currently no plans to use a hard threshold as a trigger for implementing local lockdowns. A wide range of qualitative and quantitative information are used to monitor the incidence of COVID-19 nationally and in local areas, and to understand progress made in tackling outbreaks. These are reviewed every day and are considered in light of both the changing national picture and on-the-ground reporting on how situations are being managed.

Taken together these inform the decision made about which local Alert Level is appropriate for everyone.