PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Religious Buildings: Coronavirus (4 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to enable places of worship to remain open for services during the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown.

Asked by:
Fleur Anderson (Labour)

Although places of worship are closed for communal prayer, they are permitted to open for individual prayer, and to record or livestream services so that worshippers can participate at home. In addition, funerals are also permitted and can be attended by a maximum of thirty people.

The regulations now in force will expire on 2?December, at which point we hope to be able to be able to ease restrictions.

Answered by:
Luke Hall (Conservative)
9 November 2020