Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2020 to Question 67720 on Children: Coronavirus, on what date he plans to seek permission to make his statement to Parliament before the summer recess on the Adoption and Children (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020.

I will make a statement to Parliament before summer recess on the Adoption and Children (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which will be informed by the department’s ongoing analysis of how the regulations are being used.