Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether court service staff who are required to wear goggles as part of their duties are (a) issued with their own personal sets or (b) required to share communal sets of goggles.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is not typically required by court or tribunal staff, given the nature of the roles they undertake, the way they are undertaken, and the framework of risk mitigations (in respect of Covid-19 transmission or more generally) entrenched. Wherever PPE is risk-assessed as necessary, it is provided by HMCTS. Wherever there is a specific need for goggles or protective glasses, they are issued to the individual member of staff concerned. The protective equipment is personal to that individual. Glasses/goggles are not shared.