My department, the DCMS, has engaged with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to ensure that the energy bill relief scheme is supporting businesses and other non-domestic customers, such as arts venues, museums, libraries and other community spaces. The support provides a discount on gas and electricity unit prices applied to energy usage initially between 1 October this year and 31 March next year. DCMS continues to liaise with all the different sectors under our portfolio to support BEIS’s three-month review of the scheme to determine what support might be needed.

The Government are committed to supporting people with long Covid and are spending £224 million on long Covid care, establishing 90 specialised services for adults and 14 paediatric services for children and young people across England. Those assess people with long Covid and direct them into care pathways that provide appropriate support, treatment and rehabilitation. We are also spending £50 million on research better to understand long Covid and how to treat it.

The NHS COVID Pass can now be used to demonstrate proof of a booster or third dose for outbound international travel. This is available through the NHS App and on NHS.UK. Booster vaccinations are not required for domestic certification in England. In light of the recent advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to extend the booster programme, we will keep the inclusion of these doses for domestic certification under review.