Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a risk analysis of the potential effect of easing the lockdown on the prevalence of covid-19.

Transparency, including on the evidence informing the views of Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), is vital in helping to maintain the public’s trust and grow our collective understanding of the disease, while also helping to explain how scientific advice to the Government is being formed. The Government is working to publish regularly the evidence documents and studies on issues including the lockdown and prevalence which have formed the basis of SAGE’s discussions and advice to Ministers. More evidence will be published in the coming weeks.