Coronavirus: Quarantine

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Government's proposals to end the legal requirement to self-isolate in Spring 2022 on the ability of immunosuppressed people to access their places of work.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 15th February 2022

The Department must, in line with the Public Sector Equality Duty, consider the impact of policy decisions on protected groups when changes to legislation are made.

In the case of the self-isolation regulations this will be done alongside public health considerations ahead of any final decision to remove or amend these regulations and consideration will be given to groups who may be disproportionately impacted by changes to the legislation or guidance, as well as those who are immunosuppressed.

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