Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons leisure centres, gyms and soft play areas are (a) required to close in the Liverpool City Region and (b) permitted to stay open in Lancashire under the highest level covid-19 restrictions.

The package of measures to be implemented in the Liverpool City Region when it moved to Local Covid Alert Level ‘very high’ was developed in close consultation with local authorities, taking into account local circumstances and insight. Following a request from the local authorities to revisit that package we have agree to re-open gyms and soft play areas in the Liverpool City Region, as they are currently in Lancashire.