Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of a rise in (a) community acquired pneumonia and (b) hospital acquired infections this winter.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made an assessment of potential community-acquired pneumonia this winter.

Whilst UKHSA has not made projections of hospital-onset infections for winter 2021/22, routinely monitors and reports healthcare-associated infection in the general population and co/secondary infections in COVID-19 patients.