Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to mandate local authorities to provide protect equipment to (a) care workers employed by private companies that receive public money and (b) other care workers in (i) Cambridge and (ii) England.
We are working around the clock to give the social care sector and wider National Health Service the equipment and support they need to tackle this outbreak. We published a personal protective equipment (PPE) Plan on 10 April, setting out clear guidance on who needs PPE and in what circumstances they need to use it; and how sufficient supplies will be secured and distributed to the front line.