Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people are able to continue to use their bubbles to support their childcare needs during the covid-19 lockdown that has been in place since 5 January 2021.

Parents and carers continue to be able to form a childcare bubble with one other household for the purposes of informal childcare, where a child in their household is under 14 years old, although bubbles are allowed for all single adult households. Some households will also be able to benefit from being in a support bubble, including any household with a child under the age of one year old, a child under the age of five years old with a disability that requires continuous care, or single adults living with one or more children under 18 years old.