Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken to ensure that blind and partially sighted people can be guided safely during the covid-19 outbreak.

We are committed to supporting blind and partially sighted people through every stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and are working across Government to ensure that all disabled people are able to get the support they need. The steps we are taking include:

- Provision of guidance and advice, including in relation to guiding;

- Ensuring that there are now dedicated shopping hours for disabled people and supermarkets are making reasonable adjustments such as making audio announcements and making staff available to provide support if needed; and

- Working across Government on the accessibility of COVID-19 public health information guidance and other reasonable adjustments that may be needed for disabled people during the pandemic, including blind and partially sighted people.