Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed as clinically vulnerable or extremely clinically vulnerable and advised to shield after the 10 June 2020 cut-off date for applying to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Only clinically extremely vulnerable people have been advised to shield. For this cohort, the information requested is not available as the data does not include the date when a person was added to the shielded patient list.

Guidance detailing the support arrangements in place for those 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

We have set out an unprecedented package of financial support to help the country through the COVID-19 pandemic, and the clinically extremely vulnerable are able to access these where eligible.