Member

When I was on the Public Accounts Committee and now as the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, I asked the NHS, “What is the cost of this? What is the impact on your staff and your budgets?” The NHS said it was negligible, because it is the right thing to do, and because staff would have left or taken time off sick anyway. It is the right thing to do for the economy, too, because all the businesses talked to us about how much they had got back from their employees when they came back to work in terms of loyalty, trust and retention rates.