Covid-19: Disparate Impact Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Covid-19: Disparate Impact

Hywel Williams Excerpts
Thursday 22nd October 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kemi Badenoch Portrait Kemi Badenoch
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My hon. Friend is right that we are looking across the board, but I just remind him that we are looking at those who have been most disproportionately affected and are most vulnerable. Although we have not found that LGBT groups specifically have been disproportionately affected, we know that they are losing out where healthcare services have been unavailable because they have had to close or provide other services to deal with the pandemic. We are looking to improve that, but the review that I am carrying out looks specifically at vulnerability and disproportionate impact.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC) [V]
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I am glad that information is available in different languages; real language choice provides a clear functional gain, as we know in Wales. However, I am against shifting away from seeing the pandemic as affecting discrete groups. Will the Minister commit the Government to continuing and extending economic support as further evidence reveals the groups who have been hardest hit?