Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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

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