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Care Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue an official apology to social care workers that were dismissed during the pandemic for not being vaccinated.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
13 Nov 2024
Answer
20 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue an official apology to social care workers that were dismissed during the pandemic for not being vaccinated.

  2. 13 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Social care workers are employed by individual employers, and it is down to these employers to decide whether to hire or dismiss staff, not the Government. Making vaccination a condition of deployment (VCOD) was supported by the best available clinical ev...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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