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 disproportionate effect on BAME communities of covid-19 in (a) Newport West, (b) Wales and the (c) UK.

As healthcare is devolved, the Welsh Government would be responsible for such an assessment in relation to Wales. The Office for National Statistics release ‘All data related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by ethnic group, England and Wales’ only provides the combined ethnic group breakdown for England and Wales combined. Unfortunately, the breakdown for this data is not available for comparison. This release is available at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/coronavirusrelateddeathsbyethnicgroupenglandandwales/2march2020to10april2020/relateddata