Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to mandate individual risk assessments for all employees in her Department before they return to the workplace following the easing of covid-19 restrictions; and how many individual risk assessments for people returning to work have been conducted by her Department as of 21 February 2022.

Managers of Home Office employees are already strongly encouraged to use the Department’s Covid-19 Individual Risk Indicator (CIRI) tool to have a structured conversation with their team members before they return to their workplace.

The CIRI tool enables a personalised discussion of the employee’s individual needs, concerns and risk factors to enable practical steps to be taken to facilitate their return to the workplace.