Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any NHS staff have been made redundant while suffering from long covid; and if he will make a statement.

This information requested is not collected centrally.

The redundancy terms for employees are outlined under Section 16 of the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook. Any decision to enter into redundancy arrangements must be mainly or wholly attributable to the fact that:

- the employer or the business need for which the employee was appointed has ceased, or is intended to cease or the type of number of roles needed to carry out a particular kind of work has changed; and

- the need for staff to carry out work in the place they were originally employed has ceased or is relocating.