Boris Johnson has announced new rules on meeting people for all of England today.
The Prime Minister set out his Covid winter plan to the Commons this afternoon and said there will be a return to tougher regional tiers on December 2.
Places will be put into either Tier 1, Tier 2 or Tier 3 after the national lockdown ends, though some social mixing rules will apply for the whole of England.
Mr Johnson announced that across the entire country, regardless of tier, people can meet up to six people in outdoor public spaces.
In Tier 1, people must follow the rule of six indoors and outdoors.
Tier 2 bans people mixing indoors, including in public spaces like pubs and restaurants, but people can meet up to six people outdoors including in beer gardens.
There are tougher rules for Tier 3 areas, with no mixing of different households indoors except in outdoor places such as parks or beaches.
However, there are 17 specific exemptions from gathering limits in all tiers across the country.
These include for weddings with no more than 15 people present and funerals with no more than 30 people present.
The full list of the 17 exemptions from gathering limits in all tiers across England:
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As part of a single household, or a support bubble
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For work or providing voluntary or charitable services, including in other people’s homes
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For childcare, education or training – meaning education and training provided as part of a formal curriculum
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For supervised activities provided for children, including wraparound care (before and after-school childcare), groups and activities for under 18s, and children’s playgroups
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For formal support groups, and parent and child groups – up to 15 people aged 5 and older
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To allow contact between birth parents and children in care, as well as between siblings in care
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For arrangements where children do not live in the same household as both their parents or guardians
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For prospective adopting parents to meet a child or children who may be placed with them
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For birth partners
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To attend a funeral – with no more than 30 people present – or a commemorative event such as a wake for someone who has died – with no more than 15 people present
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To see someone who is terminally ill or at the end of life
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To attend a wedding or civil partnership – with no more than 15 people present
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To provide emergency assistance
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To avoid injury or illness, or to escape a risk of harm
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To fulfil a legal obligation, such as attending court or jury service
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To provide care or assistance to someone vulnerable or to provide respite for a carer
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To facilitate moving home
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