Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
What assessment he made of the potential merits of enabling theatres to reopen with social distancing measures on the same date as cinemas.
Cinemas were able to reopen on the 4th of July thanks to the guidance that was recently published.
We also recently published a 5-stage roadmap for reopening performing art venues - which are currently allowed to rehearse and broadcast shows without an audience.
We hope to move to stage 3 which will allow for outdoor performances, and stage 4, indoors with social distancing soon.