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1.22pm BST

This is from the i's Richard Vaughan on the events research programme. (See 1.17pm.)

Labour's UQ demanding why the Govt not publishing Events Research Programme findings. I've been told this is because No10 didn't want to publish the results which showed festivals are "safe" at a time when they were delaying step 4 of the roadmap https://t.co/LBjp4rkCFL

Govt isn't releasing data from their Events Research Programme (mass event pilots with no social distancing etc.) Why?

The Minister says no major concerns" resulted from these events.

It's not unreasonable to ponder whether the data undermines the delay of 21 June to 19 July pic.twitter.com/afcRUD1v89

1.17pm BST

Pilot schemes involving testing intended to allow large-scale attendance at sports and cultural events have not caused any Covid outbreaks, MPs have been told.

Responding to a Commons urgent question about the so-called events research programme, Nigel Huddleston, a culture minister, said:

Although we are not yet in a position to publish the full report, I can assure the house that post-event data closely monitored have not shown any evidence of the events causing outbreaks. If they had, we would have communicated that information urgently.

We outlined when we announced the programme that we would release the report prior to step 4 [of the road map to unlock] and that's exactly what we will be doing, we will be releasing the report very soon.