Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, what equality impact assessments have been undertaken with reference to House staff in respect of (a) age, (b) gender and (c) disability to support decision making on moving the House from hybrid to physical proceedings.
An equality impact assessment has been carried out to understand the impact of Covid-19 on different groups of staff, including in respect of physical or hybrid proceedings. This has been used to inform actions taken and the design of risk mitigations, and will be published by 15 June.