Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to the Government's mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy for social care staff.

The Government has published evidence and research regarding vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD) in Care Quality Commision (CQC)-regulated care homes and in health and wider social care settings.

Documents relating to VCOD in CQC-regulated care homes are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-older-adult-care-homes

Documents relating to VCOD in wider social care settings are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-the-health-and-wider-social-care-sector

The published documents contain references to evidence and research in the footnotes.

The Secretary of State’s statement to the House setting out intentions to revoke VCOD is available at the following link:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-01-31/debates/C23A5791-2CC9-44FA-B9D6-BC9355C014C1/VaccinationConditionOfDeployment

The consultation on the proposal is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care