Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of long covid on trends in the number of people who are not in work; and what recent steps his Department has taken to help tackle long covid.

The Department regularly discusses long COVID and its impact across Government and with a range of external stakeholders. NHS England has invested £314 million to support the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome.

There are 90 post assessment services to support adults and 14 services for children and young people with post-COVID-19 conditions and to direct them into appropriate care pathways. The Government has invested £50 million for research projects into the long-term impacts of COVID-19 infection.