Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a comprehensive and holistic assessment of the threat posed to the health of people under sixty years of age who have not received non-covid-19 related (a) treatments and (b) diagnoses as a result of the covid-19 lockdowns compared with the threat posed by the covid-19 virus.

The Department has no plans to make such an assessment.

Social distancing requirements introduced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have not restricted access to NHS services. The regulations provide an explicit exemption from requirement to stay at home and gathering limits for seeking medical assistance.The NHS has continued its public information campaign to encourage people to access NHS services when they need to.