Industry stakeholders invited to watch APPG inquiry into cleaning and hygiene during Covid

Interested members of the cleaning and hygiene industry are being invited to watch an upcoming inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for the Cleaning and Hygiene Industry.

MPs will next week begin the much-needed review of the role of cleaning and hygiene, and the associated challenges, during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The inquiry, entitled ‘Embedding Effective Hygiene for a Resilient UK’, starts at 10am, Tuesday September 6, with the aim of producing a report with policy recommendations which will feed into the national UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Anyone interested in watching any of the three Zoom sessions during September is invited to email compsec@britishcleaningcouncil.org by 6pm on the day before the session they want to attend.  Please apply separately for each session.

Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants can watch but not participate in the inquiry sessions. A Zoom invite will be emailed to attendees ahead of the sessions. All sessions start at 10am.

The three sessions will hear from: 

• September 6: A public health expert in hygiene promotion and a Director of Public Health who has led on the local implementation of public health measures.
• September 13: Contractors who delivered cleaning services at the time, alongside suppliers and manufacturers of cleaning and hygiene products which were very much in demand during the pandemic.
• September 20: Owners and landlords of a variety of buildings who had to deliver high standards of cleaning and hygiene during the pandemic, in order to protect the public.