Covid-19: Disparate Impact Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Covid-19: Disparate Impact

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Thursday 22nd October 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kemi Badenoch Portrait Kemi Badenoch
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That would be outside the terms of reference of the review that I am leading over the year. However, as a Treasury Minister, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that we have distributional analysis that comes out with all this information and influences all the policies that we put out in terms of economic interventions for specific groups.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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I commend my hon. Friend for her statement and for the report. Given the high level of concern about the impact of covid-19 on ethnic minorities, and given that a vaccine will be a very large part of the solution to the pandemic, why does she think there has been such a disproportionately low number of ethnic minority people coming forward to volunteer for the NHS vaccine registry?