Coronavirus: Christmas

(asked on 26th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the covid-19 Christmas dispensation period for NHS staff working between 23 and 27 December 2020 to ensure that they are able to spend time with their families.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th January 2021

The Christmas social contact easements enabled people to form an exclusive bubble of three households between 23 and 27 December.

The regulations do not provide the scope to create an exemption for National Health Service workers that would have enabled them to form a Christmas bubble either before or after the specified period.

We encouraged employers to be as flexible as possible with leave arrangements over the Christmas period.

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