Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, what steps they are taking to ensure that the safety recommendations made in the report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch COVID-19 transmission in hospitals:management of the risk – a prospective safety investigation, published in October 2020, are implemented.

The Department has worked closely with system partners to give careful consideration to the recommendations made and have accepted those recommendations that have been directed at the Department. Detailed actions outlining how the Department intends to implement the recommendations, are set out in our response to the report which is expected to be published by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch in due course.