Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the local covid-19 alert levels, whether residents of a Tier 2 area are permitted to stay overnight with friends resident in a Tier 1 area, if social distancing is observed.

Persons resident in a local Covid alert level high area can only meet indoors with a person living in a local Covid alert medium, including staying overnight, whether socially distanced or not, if one of the exemptions apply. This includes where they are in linked households, otherwise known as a social bubble, amongst others.