Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 39524, for what reasons his Department is unable to provide a full response at this time.

A regularly updated list of which local authorities have informed the Department that they have taken the decision to operate under the Care Act Easements introduced by the Coronavirus Act 2020 is publicly available at the following link:

www.cqc.org.uk/CareActEasements