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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) minors travelling alone and (b) boarders returning to school are exempt from the covid-19 quarantine rules; and if he will ensure that relevant guidance is updated to take account of th...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2021 to Question 167938, on Coronavirus: Screening, what estimate has been made of the number of additional covid-19 cases which may arise from the decision to no...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2021 to Question 167938, on Coronavirus: Screening, what assessment he has made of potential effect on the rate of transmission of covid-19 in early years setting...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of social care providers paying full occupational sick pay to staff having to self-isolate as a result of covid-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Public Health England on requiring NHS and social care staff to have the covid-19 vaccine in order to keep patients and care residents safe.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the guidance that his Department has issued to clinical commissioning groups on releasing local covid-19 vaccination data.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to maximise covid-19 vaccination uptake among front-line health and care staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of covid-19 vaccine uptake rates among (a) NHS staff and (b) staff in care homes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to NHS staff on responding to patients who request a specific covid-19 vaccine.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all his communications with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the decision to extend the maximum wait to receive the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the guidance given to Clinical Commissioning Groups on vaccinating patients who (a) have allergies and (b) use EpiPens but are not specifically allergic to the ingred...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has provided to facilities administering covid-19 vaccines on the efficacy of those vaccines for people on immunosuppressant medicines.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the finding that there is variation between local authorities on the provision of covid-19 vaccines to special school staff in the School's Week article of 29 January 2021 entitle...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what are the proposed annual running costs for the contracts awarded to BAE Systems and Palantir Technology for the creation of covid-19 databases.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of reports that patient data has been wiped from the EMIS Web system; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the completeness of that data on c...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of health and social care staff that have refused the covid-19 vaccination; if he will publish that data; and what plan his Department has to mitigate t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the National Neonatal Audit Programme, published November 2020, that 37 per cent of neonatal intensive care unit shifts met the qualified in speciality (QIS) speci...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing an exemption for people travelling abroad for medical reasons to use NHS covid-19 tests for test to release once back in the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect that introducing a hotel quarantine policy at the outset of the covid-19 pandemic would have had on the transmission of covid-19 in t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how long his Department estimates the new international travel covid quarantine, enforcement and testing measures announced on 9 February will have to remain in force once the top nine vaccine prio...