Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what dates local leaders in (a) Greater Manchester, (b) Liverpool City Region and (c) Sheffield City Region were informed of the Government's plans to place those regions under Tier 3 local covid alert level restrictions.

This information is not held centrally. While the Contain programme had a supporting role in the discussions with local leaders in October, it has no record of the specific date these regions were informed.