Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of individuals who are continuing to shield due to their immunocompromised condition.

The Government ended the shielding programme on 15 September 2021 and wrote to everyone previously considered to be clinically extremely vulnerable and on the shielded patient list.

We will assess of the number of individuals continuing to shield when information on COVID-19 and treatments for people in England who are at the highest risk of infection is published by the Office for National Statistics on 17 June 2022. We expect that this information will provide data to estimate the proportion of people who report they are shielding and whose immune systems mean they continue to be at high risk from COVID-19.