Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the proportion of people who have shielded as a result of vulnerability to covid-19 during the outbreak, by ethnicity.

The information requested is not held centrally. The Shielded Patient List includes data by ethnicity, although it does not include people who may have voluntarily decided to shield and is no longer updated. The list is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/dashboards/shielded-patient-list-open-data-set#data-by-demographics