Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of staff that may require redeployment as a result of the enforcement of covid-19 vaccination as a condition of deployment and (b) cost of that redeployment.

No estimate has been made as decisions on redeployment will be taken by individual employers based on local circumstances.

The Department’s impact assessment estimates the number of workers who may remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 at the end of the 12-week grace period and are not medically exempt. For National Health Service staff, this was estimated to be 73,000 or 4.9%. In social care this was 38,000 or 7.6% and 15,000 or 4.6% for the independent health sector.