Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for having an attendance limit of 15 people for weddings and 30 people for funerals and no attendance limit for worship services if social distancing measures are applied.

Funeral and weddings are one-off events and the Government recognises that it is important for life to continue with some degree of normality while we tackle the spread of the virus. It is important that these life events are able to continue which is why they have a limited exemption to the ‘rule of six’.

Although places of worship can have more than 30 people – people should only attend in groups of six or one household/support bubble and should not interact with others.