Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include agressive systemic mastocytosis within the list of conditions which identify people as extremely vulnerable to covid-19.

The guidance on what is meant by extremely vulnerable has been published and is available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19

The list is strongly indicative but not exclusive. It is up to attending clinicians to judge whether the severity of similar conditions meets the specified extremely vulnerable criteria.