Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the risk covid-19 poses to people with blood cancer.

NHS England and NHS Improvement produced a list at the beginning of the pandemic of those who were at higher risk of becoming seriously ill if they contracted COVID-19. This list has two levels of higher risk:

- High risk (clinically extremely vulnerable); and

- Moderate risk (clinically vulnerable).

People who were high risk included those who have blood or bone marrow cancer, such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma.

It is advised that those with blood cancers follow the NHS England and NHS Improvement advice that is regularly updated on their website. This can be found at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/