Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish the model and input parameters used by Imperial College London in their paper entitled Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand, which informed Government policy on the covid-19 lockdown.

The model referred to in the question is not held by the Government. It is held by its creators, and we understand the code for the Imperial model has been made available online by the authors. The information it provides will be an element considered by Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) when reaching its consensus statement to share with the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. SPI-M consensus statements and supporting documents are published periodically and can be found on GOV.UK.