Barry asked the Health Secretary “How will his Government now try to ensure they recognise that a person’s spiritual needs are critical for their mental health and that this is just as important for people’s physical health?” Barry also referred to the fact that priests have been unable to administer the sacrament to those dying in care homes and rabbis have been unable to secure a minyan in order to say the Kaddish.
In response the Secretary of State said “Ministers are working with faith leaders on how we can come to an arrangement, as soon as possible, to allow both communal prayer…, and all other aspects of nurturing worship.”
You can watch the full exchange below.