🧵Gov's plans, subject to consultation, to end #vaccination as condition of deployment in #health & #socialcare will involve revoking 2 #StatutoryInstruments (SIs) that highlighted shortcomings in #scrutiny & gov provision of evidence for its decisions. /1 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-0…
The 1st SI - Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regs 2021 – made Covid vaccination in effect mandatory for all those undertaking work activities in regulated care homes & has been in force since 11 Nov 2021. /2 hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/the-care-…
This SI was subject to damning Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) report for poor supporting docs & missing Impact Assessment. MPs like @Mark_J_Harper called asking MPs to OK it w/o such info an "abuse of the House" & in only 90-min SI debate "frankly offensive". /3
The 2nd SI - Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus)(No. 2) Regs 2021 – provide for mandatory vaccination of some NHS and wider care workers. It was rolled together with ‘Plan B’ measures approved by Parl in Dec. /4 hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/b…
This NHS vaccination SI was also subject to a damning SLSC report before its parly debate, due to insufficient supporting information and a failure to make reference to any lessons learned from the roll-out of mandatory vaccination in care homes. /5 publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5802/ldse…
An Impact Assessment was published prior to the NHS vaccination SI debate, but only 4 days beforehand, not all MPs were aware of its existence, and the IA itself was anyway rated ‘not fit for purpose’ by the Regulatory Policy Committee @RPC_Gov_UK. /6 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Assuming the gov goes ahead & ends vaccination as a condition of deployment in health & social care, this will need a new SI to revoke the 2 mandatory vaccination ones. Health Secretary indicated this new SI will "be subject to the will of the House". /7 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-0…
The gov’s approach to this new revoking SI will show if lessons have been learned from the mandatory vaccination SIs – in terms of supporting info & timeliness & length of debates. /8
Effective parly scrutiny requires gov to explain & provide evidence base for its decisions. Better evidence ⏩ better parly scrutiny ⏩ better law. Adequacy of supporting docs for SIs is among issues we're examining in our #DelegatedLegislationReview /9 hansardsociety.org.uk/projects/deleg…
Watch the webinar we co-hosted with @BinghamCentre on ‘Parliamentary Scrutiny, Evidence and the Rule of Law’. Speakers: @justinmadders, @selvinbrownmbe, @SLG_Econ & Baroness (Cathy) Bakewell. Chair: @jeff_a_king /end hansardsociety.org.uk/events/parliam…
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