Coronavirus: Quarantine

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the guidance from NHS England and NHS Improvement to chief executives on 2 March 2020 stating that staff should receive full pay while in self-isolation due to the covid-19 outbreak, including bank staff and sub-contractors, who have to be physically present at an NHS facility to carry out their duties, applies to workers employed by Sodexo at NHS Testing sites.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 24th March 2021

The testing sites run by Sodexo had not been established at the time of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s letter of 2 March 2020.

As Sodexo is an independent organisation, they are able to adopt those terms and conditions.

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