Covid-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 1 Feb 2021 Closed: 28 Jun 2021 Parliament page
Starting from the end of March 2020, the government advised some 2.2 million people who it considered to be “clinically extremely vulnerable” to covid-19 that they should shield at home for 12 weeks, to protect themselves from the virus. For those shielding, the government offered support with food and medicine, … Read more
6 Recommendations
20 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 5 events
2 Nov
2021
Correspondence
2 Sep
2021
Report published
21 Apr
2021
Report published
16 Mar
2021
Correspondence
22 Feb
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
22 Feb 2021
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COVID-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown
Ben Llewelyn · MHCLG David Kennedy · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Dr Jenny Harries OBE · UK Health Security Agency Jeremy Pocklington CB · Ministry of Defence Lee McDonough · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Mark Reynolds · NHS Digital Sir Chris Wormald · Department of Health and Social Care
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Fifty-Third Report - Covid 19: supporting the vulnerable during … HC 938 21 Apr 2021 26 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
Clear
6 Recommendation Not Addressed
Fifty-Third Report - Covid 19: sup…
Missing or inaccurate telephone numbers in NHS patient records undermined government’s efforts to contact 375,000...
Missing or inaccurate telephone numbers in NHS patient records undermined government’s efforts to contact 375,000 people. The contact centre relied on telephone numbers in NHS patient records when calling people to check their needs. Over 20% of the 1.8 million … Read more
Government Response
The government's response was boilerplate text related to other reports and did not address the recommendation about improving patient contact details in NHS records.
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23 Conclusion Not Addressed
Fifty-Third Report - Covid 19: sup…
We asked MHCLG how many extra people took up the offer of support after being...
We asked MHCLG how many extra people took up the offer of support after being contacted by local authorities. MHCLG confirmed that it did not collect this information and explained that it is difficult to disentangle how many people registered … Read more
Government Response
The government's response addressed a different recommendation regarding patient contact details and did not engage with the conclusion about MHCLG's lack of data on how many vulnerable people local authorities reached.
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Government Response AI assessment · 26 of 6 classified
Accepted 14
Acknowledged 5
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 5
Total 6 recs + 20 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
2 Nov 2021 Correspondence from Sir Chris Wormald KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care, re 53rd Report session 2019-21 – Covid-19 Supporting the vulnerable, dated 26 October 2021
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16 Mar 2021 Correspondence from Sir Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Care, re COVID-19: Supporting the vulnerable during lockdown, dated 10 March 2021
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