This page sets out the full list of local restriction tiers by area from Wednesday 2 December 2020.

Decisions on which area goes into which tier are primarily based on 5 key epidemiological indicators:

• case detection rates in all age groups
• case detection rates in the over-60s
• the rate at which cases are rising or falling
• positivity rate (the number of positive cases detected as a percentage of tests taken)
• pressure on the NHS, including current and projected occupancy

The indicators are designed to provide a full picture of what is happening with the virus in any area so that suitable action can be taken.

Find out more information on tiers, including what you can and cannot do in each tier.

Tier 1: Medium alert

South East

• Isle of Wight

South West

• Cornwall
• Isles of Scilly

Tier 2: High alert

East of England

• Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
• Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
• Hertfordshire
• Norfolk
• Suffolk

East Midlands

• Northamptonshire
• Rutland

London

• all 32 boroughs plus the City of London

North West

• Cumbria
• Liverpool City Region
• Warrington and Cheshire

South East

• Bracknell Forest
• Brighton and Hove
• Buckinghamshire
• East Sussex
• Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
• Oxfordshire
• Reading
• Surrey
• West Berkshire
• West Sussex
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• Wokingham

South West

• Bath and North East Somerset
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• Devon
• Dorset
• Gloucestershire
• South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
• Wiltshire and Swindon

West Midlands

• Herefordshire
• Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
• Worcestershire

Yorkshire

• North Yorkshire
• York

Tier 3: Very High alert

East Midlands

• Derby and Derbyshire
• Leicester and Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

North East

• North East Combined Authority:
  • County Durham
  • Gateshead
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • North Tyneside
  • Northumberland
  • South Tyneside
  • Sunderland
• Tees Valley Combined Authority:
  • Darlington
  • Hartlepool
  • Middlesbrough
  • Redcar and Cleveland
  • Stockton-on-Tees

North West

• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackpool
• Greater Manchester
• Lancashire

South East

• Kent and Medway
• Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)

South West

• Bristol
• North Somerset
• South Gloucestershire

West Midlands

• Birmingham and Black Country
• Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
• Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull

Yorkshire and The Humber

• The Humber
• South Yorkshire
• West Yorkshire