Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he plans to issue to employers on their responsibilities to support individuals who are advised to continue shielding by their healthcare teams beyond 1 August 2020.

Employers have a legal duty to make sure the workplace is safe for their employees, including employees with disabilities and those who are clinically vulnerable or clinically extremely vulnerable.

Guidance on working safely during the COVID-19 outbreak has been issued to help employers in England make their workplaces COVID-19-safe for their employees, visitors and customers. This is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19

We are continuing to work across Government to ensure that clinically extremely vulnerable people can return to work safely. Further guidance will be issued on 1 August 2020.