Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has provided to NHS Trusts on enforcement of vaccination as a condition of deployment.

Guidance for National Health Service trusts has been published by NHS England which sets out that the Care Quality Commission is responsible for enforcement of the requirements. The guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2022/01/C1545-update-vcod-for-healthcare-workers-phase-2-implementation.pdf