Question reference: S5W-34348
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 8 January 2021
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Current status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 22 January 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether domestic cleaners will be permitted to carry out work in homes under the most recent COVID-19 restrictions.
Answer
For areas in Level 4 or under the current Lockdown restrictions work carried out in other people’s homes around services for the purpose of the upkeep, maintenance or functioning of the home is restricted to essential work only. This is to help suppress the spread of the virus. Work carried out in people’s homes can continue in all cases with appropriate mitigations in areas in levels 1-3.
The kind of work we expect may continue includes domestic cleaning, where services are provided in support of a clean and safe living environment for people in vulnerable circumstances or living with a disability and who unable to clean their own home.
General cleaning services, are not essential, and therefore not allowed in Level 4 areas or under current Lockdown restrictions.