Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department last reviewed its contingency plans for dealing with (a) coronaviruses, (b) emerging infectious diseases and (c) acute respiratory syndromes.

The Government undertakes regular reviews of its assessment of, and preparedness for, the risks that the United Kingdom and its citizens could face, including natural hazard threats such as emerging infectious diseases, pandemic influenza and other high-consequence infectious diseases.

The National Risk Register outlines what is being done about key risks and how the public can prepare themselves. The National Risk Register is being reviewed in light of COVID-19 and will be published when this has been completed.