Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to amend covid-19 guidance to allow both parents to visit children in hospital together.

Revised hospital visiting guidance was published on 16 March 2021. This guidance confirms that both parents/guardians are permitted to visit a child in hospital in circumstances where the family bubble can be maintained. However, anyone with a positive test or showing symptoms of COVID-19 should not visit.

The revised guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/C1112-visiting-healthcare-inpatient-settings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-v2.pdf