Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's announcement of 18 December 2020 on the introduction of long covid clinics, what plans NHS England has to ensure that those clinics include speech and language therapists.

The national specification for these services asks providers ensure patients have access to a multidisciplinary team of professionals to account for the multi-system nature of post-COVID-19 syndrome. Where speech and language therapy are required, patients should be able to get the treatment they need.