Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to encourage employers to carry out covid-19-specific health and safety risk assessments in the workplace to help support severely immunocompromised employees.
COVID-19 remains a public health issue. There is no longer a requirement for every business to consider COVID-19 in their risk assessment or have COVID-19 control measures in place. The United Kingdom Health Security Agency has published guidance on reducing the spread of respiratory infections, including COVID-19, in the workplace.
For people in England who are immunosuppressed (including employees), the Department of Health and Social Care has published guidance entitled: ‘COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk’.