Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that doctors who are on strike do not take up locum shifts during strike days at another hospital.

Following the High Court ruling last year it is now unlawful for employment businesses to supply workers, including doctors, to carry out the duties of striking workers. It is not unlawful however for a doctor to take up a locum shift, and current blacklisting legislation does not allow only striking doctors to be targeted and prevented from taking up local shifts.