Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to compensate care workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the Government policy on mandatory vaccinations during the covid-19 outbreak.

The regulations to make vaccination a condition of entry in all Care Quality Commission-regulated care homes were approved by Parliament on 22 July 2021 and came into force on 11 November 2021. Employers who ensured that vaccinated staff were deployed, unless exempt, were complying with the law at the time. The Government will therefore not offer compensation to unvaccinated staff who were dismissed or chose to leave the workforce.