Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

(asked on 21st April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions since 1 January 2020 has guidance on personal protective equipment been updated by his Department; and if he will place copies in the Library of each iteration of that guidance.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 7th May 2020

Since 1 January 2020, there have been 21 updates to the COVID-19: infection prevention and control (IPC) guidance. A list of the updates and details of the changes made can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control#history

To collate each version as a pdf copy would incur disproportionate cost.

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