Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his Oral contribution of 12 January 2021, Official Report, column 562, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the event in the Downing Street garden on 20 May 2020 could be said to technically fall within the guidance.

I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the Terms of Reference for the Cabinet Office investigation, which have been deposited in the Library of the House. It would not be appropriate to pre-empt that process.