Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2020 to Question 125991 on Hearing Impairment: Protective Clothing, whether his Department plans to extend the pilot of clear face coverings to educational settings.
The ClearMask pilot is now complete. Based on the feedback provided, we will be running an assessment of a broader array of products from a range of manufacturers. This assessment will test different types of transparent masks currently at prototype stage against a new technical specification being developed by the regulatory bodies. We are engaging users, so they may assess the appropriateness of different masks for each end-user setting, including those in education.