Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to ensure immunocompromised people are safeguarded following the removal of the requirement to self-isolate upon testing positive for covid-19.

The vaccination programme has weakened the link between infection, hospitalisation and deaths and ensured that those who are most vulnerable are protected from severe outcomes of COVID-19. A cohort of approximately 1.3 million people, many of whom are immunosuppressed, have been identified as being eligible for anti-viral treatments and will continue to have access to symptomatic testing.