Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care workers have died from covid-19 (a) in total and (b) since 1 August 2020.
Mortality data from the Office for National Statistics shows that 307 deaths involving COVID-19 among social care workers were registered in England, and 14 in Wales, between 9 March 2020 and 12 October 2020. This data was published on 27 October 2020.