Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he plans to provide to communities which have an R rate over one in response to covid-19.

The Department is working with regional and local partners to prevent, manage and contain outbreaks of COVID-19, ensuring responses are locally led, regionally supported, and nationally enabled. We are currently working with local systems to outline what national support is available to areas with high or increasing case rates through both the enhanced response area and the enduring transmission support packages.