Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date the decision was made to quarantine citizens that have been repatriated from Wuhan at Arrowe Park Hospital; what criteria his Department used to make that decision; and if he will make a statement.

We have put in place proportionate, precautionary measures in response to the outbreak of coronavirus in China, acting at all times on the clinical advice of the Chief Medical Officer and national experts in the treatment of infectious diseases.

A Ministerial decision was taken on supported isolation, based on advice by PHE, on 29 January.

Arrowe Park Hospital was chosen because it offers appropriate accommodation and other facilities for those coming back from Wuhan.

It also allows the health of those in the group to be regularly monitored and has the necessary medical facilities close at hand should they be required.