Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will publish local data on who is being infected by covid-19 by (a) age, (b) ethnicity and (c) socio-economic status.

Public Health England (PHE) publishes data on COVID-19 case data by age group at lower tier local authority level on the United Kingdom Coronavirus Dashboard which is available at the following link:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

PHE also publishes regional and national COVID-19 case data by age group and ethnicity in the weekly flu and COVID-19 surveillance report. Data on COVID-19 case rates is available by index of multiple deprivation quintile. The surveillance report is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season