Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential disproportionate effect of long covid on BAME children.

We know more about the impact of the virus following Public Health England’s report on COVID-19 and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. However, as ‘long’ COVID-19 is an emerging condition, a better understanding of how it affects under-represented communities is needed.