Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that clinically and extremely vulnerable people under local covid-19 lockdown restrictions (a) are safe and (b) have their basic needs met beyond the end of July 2020 when the shielding rules are eased.

The Government has always been clear that it will continually monitor the transmission of the virus in our communities and, if rates rise too much, our advice to those who are shielding may change.

For those shielding in Leicester, the guidance published on 23 June remains in place and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable should continue to follow it.

The Government is committed to supporting all those who are shielding.