Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's recent announcement that people at high risk from coronavirus will no longer be advised to shield from 1 August 2020, if he will make it his policy to issue personalised information to those people on the levels of (a) their personal risk and (b) the risks of different activities that they may undertake.

The National Health Service has asked service providers, including general practitioners (GPs), to undertake a series of actions to support people who have been asked to shield. This includes ensuring every shielding individual has a named care coordinator to help them with their healthcare and any changing or emerging health needs. People should continue to talk to their GP if they have concerns about their ongoing treatment.

National advice to clinically extremely vulnerable people who are shielding is set out at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19