Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to enforce guidance on house viewings during the covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.

We have worked with industry and Public Health England to develop guidance which provides advice around how to move home safely. We have been clear that all initial viewings should be done virtually and any in person viewings should only take place with serious purchasers by appointment only. Industry has reinforced this message with its own guidance and anyone who has concerns should raise them with their agent in the first instance.