Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether employees who currently work for social care providers who receive no public funding will be eligible to receive the Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme Death in Service payments.

The Government launched the NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance scheme on 20 May 2020. The scheme is non-contributory and pays a £60,000 lump sum where staff who had been recently working where personal care is provided to individuals who have contracted COVID-19 die as a result of the virus.

Care workers are eligible, providing that their work requires them to be present in frontline settings where COVID-19 is present. Employees of all care homes registered by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are eligible, regardless of how they are funded.

Any social care staff working in non-CQC registered settings are also eligible, if their employer receives public funding.