Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he is requiring from hotels responsible for managed covid-19 quarantine provision on the handling of any (a) physical and (b) mental health emergencies for people quarantining; whether he is monitoring the handling of those emergencies; whether appropriate treatment and care is provided; if he will take steps to ensure that hotels know what to do in the event of a managed quarantine guest experiencing a mental health emergency; and if he will make a statement.

The Department’s Landside Operations team produces a report for each quarantine hotel describing all notable incidents occurring in the previous 24 hours, including the handling of mental and physical emergencies. Managed Quarantine hotels are required to provide daily contributions for this report.

If a hotel guest experiences a physical or mental emergency, medical care is accessed directly from the National Health Service. Landside Operations liaison officers are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week and can facilitate transition from the hotel for a mental or physical emergency.