Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social care, when his Department plans to publish equality impact assessments for the covid-19 tier measures.
The Government is committed to publishing data that has informed its decision making, including the tiers framework and allocations.
We have also published a supporting document to accompany the most recent regulations on 30 November. This is available at the following link:
Epidemiological data and projection models on local restriction tiers, including commentary on individual tier allocation decisions is available at the following link:
This document provides further information and context as to why areas are in particular tiers currently.