When is the tiers announcement due today?

[DownRightAmazing]

Anyone know? All I can find is Matt Hancock to announce 'later'.

11:30 apparently, so probably 2pm rollseyes

I read that it is likely to be at 11.30

He is speaking in parliament at 11.30 so it should be on time

It’s driving me mad, the delay. I need to know whether I’m working tomorrow (depends on whether we drop to tier 2 in Manchester).

Oh, thanks Mumsnet! I'm glad I asked because I couldn't find it. Suspect our area will be moving up to tier 3 (and I support that but still want to know!!)

I think we are staying in tier 3 TBH (Sheffield/Barnsley)

I’ll be surprised if any areas drop a tier.

So would I. I saw a pub yesterday getting ready to open (setting up in a marquee outside) and a restaurant I follow on FB is taking bookings, but in reality, even though the cases have dropped in our area, dropping from tier 3 to tier 2 would go against yesterday's message about a small Christmas if people are going to be able to go out to pubs and restaurants, especially seeing as so many people will lie about households or use workarounds to get past the substantial meal requirements.

On the timing of the announcement, if previous announcements are anything to go by, they'll start talking about it at 11.30, waffle on for a couple of hours inserting confusing snippets of information about 'parts of county A will move from tier 2 to tier 3, while unspecified area B will drop to tier 2. The full list will be published on a website this afternoon and will be up for a minute or 2 before crashing.

BBC are saying now that Lancashire has been told it is staying in tier 3, which doesn't give much hope for similar northern areas that have dropped a lot in the last few weeks and/or has vastly different types of area and number of cases, from crowded urban areas to rural parts with hardly any cases.

@BarbaraofSeville

On the timing of the announcement, if previous announcements are anything to go by, they'll start talking about it at 11.30, waffle on for a couple of hours inserting confusing snippets of information about 'parts of county A will move from tier 2 to tier 3, while unspecified area B will drop to tier 2. The full list will be published on a website this afternoon and will be up for a minute or 2 before crashing.

I expect nothing less

@BarbaraofSeville

On the timing of the announcement, if previous announcements are anything to go by, they'll start talking about it at 11.30, waffle on for a couple of hours inserting confusing snippets of information about 'parts of county A will move from tier 2 to tier 3, while unspecified area B will drop to tier 2. The full list will be published on a website this afternoon and will be up for a minute or 2 before crashing.

This is SO accurate.

I am in a middling sized town where all the surrounding areas have low numbers, about 90 per 100k, but my town is about 220 per 100k, well above average of 165 per 100k. What do you think the chances are of us going into tier 3 while everywhere around us stays at tier 2?

All of Lancashire in tier 3 again 😡. Although to be fair, it sounds like it’s the council’s fault this time.

Lancashire staying in tier 3, and likely that Greater Manchester will too.

Utterly disgusted with this now.

I hope they get a move on an announce soon rather than waffling on and on

Yes, I just read that Lanc and Manc are expected to stay in tier 3.
It was pretty obvious, whitehall hate us lot up here.

Of we don't get the reward of moving down to T2 then where's the motivation to comply

I'm in Tameside which had high rates from sep till nov. We have dropped dramatically and figures are below England average as are other greater Manchester boroughs.
Our placing compared to other local authorities is 281 out of 315 so we are very low case rate compared to other areas yet greater Manchester is going to remain in tier 3 .
This does not make sense. How much lower is Manchester expected to drop before they release us from tier 3?

I think the motivation is having a NHS that can cope.. Much bigger than Xmas really. And the loosening of rules over Xmas itself.

On the timing of the announcement, if previous announcements are anything to go by, they'll start talking about it at 11.30, waffle on for a couple of hours inserting confusing snippets of information about 'parts of county A will move from tier 2 to tier 3, while unspecified area B will drop to tier 2. The full list will be published on a website this afternoon and will be up for a minute or 2 before crashing.

But wasn’t everything online at 11:30am when they set the tiers two weeks ago? I’m kind of expecting to be able to see everything by midday.

We’re in East Sussex here. Highly expecting to go up into Tier 3.....😏

I thought south yorkshire may go down to tier 2 but numbers have gone up slightly so it'll be tier 3 until after Xmas now.

Yes last time the tiers started being released prior to 11.30 Matt speaking. It was actually quite punctual. I'm waiting now....