Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 107142 on Evictions: Coronavirus, if he will make it his policy to suspend all evictions in the interests of public health during the period of new national covid-19 lockdown from 5 November 2020.

The Lord Chancellor wrote to the High Court Enforcement Officers Association on 5 November to request that they ask their members not to enforce evictions other than in a limited number of the most serious circumstances during the period of time that the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No.4) Regulations 2020 are in force.