Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government plans to provide for people who have cystic fibrosis and others who are extremely vulnerable and who may need to remain outside education or work long term.

Public safety throughout this period is the Government’s top priority. This includes keeping safe society’s most vulnerable.

Shielding advice is kept under continuous review, to take into account currently available evidence. Guidance and support will remain in place until it is safe to remove it. Any changes in advice for the clinically extremely vulnerable will be communicated to them directly through a range of channels.