Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of the enforcement of restrictions under the Coronavirus Act 2020.

As per section 97(1)(b) of the Coronavirus Act 2020, the Secretary of State will make a statement in the two month report about whether he considers the current status of non-devolved provisions to be appropriate. The first such statement was published on 29 May and this and subsequent reports can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-act-two-monthly-reports

An analysis of the provisions was published on 23 September, to inform the debate held on 30 September, and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-act-analysis