Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how his Department calculated the £14 per head that will be distributed to local authorities to support clinically vulnerable residents under the local shielding framework.

MHCLG is providing councils with over £32 million to support Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) people for the 28-day period that the additional guidance is in place for CEV individuals. Funding is calculated per CEV individual on the Shielded Patient List (SPL) within the council boundaries, irrespective of whether they request support. The funding level is based on experience to date. It is designed to give councils flexibility to provide support to CEV individuals, such as access to food and to local support services, enabling them to stay as safe as possible over this period.