PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Coronavirus and Long Covid (18 August 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason healthcare staff and nurses who are subcontracted to the NHS are not entitled to the same employment protections during periods of covid and long covid infection as staff employed by the NHS and under the agenda for change system.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

Subcontracted healthcare workers and nurses are not employed by the National Health Service and are therefore subject to their employer’s terms, conditions and entitlements, including sick pay. The Government has made it clear that agencies are required to pay Statutory Sick Pay to their workers where they cannot work due to COVID-19.

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
10 September 2021