Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of students who have been diagnosed with covid-19 in the last week.

Data on the asymptomatic testing of students and pupils in schools, colleges, nurseries and higher education via lateral flow tests is published by the Department of Health and Social Care at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/weekly-statistics-for-nhs-test-and-trace-england-3-to-9-march-2022. The data requested is in table 7 in the file titled 'Tests reported: 28 May 2020 to 9 March 2022'.