Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people

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Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

Background

Our sub-inquiry

Language

2 Health inequality

Disproportionate impact

Role of comorbidities

Health inequality

Guidance

Cultural competence

Cascading guidance

Data

Death rates

Recording ethnicity on death certificates

Data collection and reporting

3 Employment

Key workers

Shutdown sectors

Self-employment

Considering the risk posed by occupation

Insecure employment

Zero-hours contracts

Zero-hours contracts and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Zero-hours contracts and Statutory Sick Pay

Improving the zero-hours contract policy

4 Reviewing Universal Credit

Universal Credit and the coronavirus pandemic

Digital connectivity

Language barriers

Ethnicity data

5 Housing

Overcrowding

Housing conditions

6 No recourse to public funds

Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix: Marmot Review 10 years on

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament