Health Secretary Matt Hancock has suggested there will be no tier system when England leaves lockdown.
Before the country went into lockdown at the start of January there were four tiers in the country - with the highest levels seeing pubs, gyms and restaurants closed while in Tier One businesses remained open and people were allowed to meet.
Mr Hancock says this may not be necessary when we leave lockdown.
The plan for leaving lockdown is to be published in the week of February 22.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday Mr Hancock said: "That is our goal, that the whole country can make steady progress together, And in fact if you look at the case rates across the UK, they are more similar in all parts of the UK that they have been for some time.
"Of course there were significant regional variations over the autumn, that is much less widespread now, hence the comments that the Prime Minister made yesterday."
On Monday the Prime Minister said a national approach to easing restrictions “might be better this time round” than the regional tiers.
The Government will set out its “road map” for the coming months on February 22, following a review of the lockdown, with March 8 targeted as the earliest possible date for reopening schools and easing other measures.
When the last lockdown ended, England returned to tiered arrangements which restricted the activities permitted in an area depending on the state of the virus.
Mr Johnson told reporters in Batley, West Yorkshire: “It may be that a national approach, going down the tiers in a national way, might be better this time round, given that the disease is behaving much more nationally.
“If you look at the way the new variant has taken off across the country, it’s a pretty national phenomenon.
“The charts I see, we’re all sort of moving pretty much in the same sort of way, I mean there are a few discrepancies, a few differences, so it may be that we will go for a national approach but there may be an advantage still in some regional differentiation as well. I’m keeping an open mind on that.”
Ministers have previously said they expected a return to a regional tiers system.
On January 27, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said “it’s sensible that we target restrictions on those places where the virus is most prevalent”.
