Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many local authorities in England who applied to the National Silver and Gold Committees to move up a tier of the local covid alert levels had their applications (a) accepted and (b) rejected by the Gold Committee; and when those requests were made.

There is no application process for local authorities to ask the ‘Gold’ or ‘Silver’ committees to change their tier their area is in.