Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department sought behavioural science guidance before implementing (a) the 10pm curfew on the hospitality industry and (b) the rule of six.

The Government receives a range of inputs in order to make all its decisions relating to COVID-19 restrictions - including monitoring the impact of restrictions in local areas via the Joint Biosecurity Centre and monitoring international experience.

We have also seen in Belgium that the package of measures introduced, including early closures in some regions, was effective in controlling transmission rates

The Government keeps all its COVID-19 restriction measures under review and will closely monitor the impact of this policy.