Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent data his Department has collected on the demographics of people who are (a) infected with, (b) admitted to hospital with and (c) dying from covid-19.

The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publishes a weekly National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report each Thursday. The report provides demographic data on COVID-19 cases and deaths by age, sex, geography and ethnicity. Data on hospitalisations is based on The Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) Watch sentinel surveillance system. The weekly 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

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) publish hospital admissions by age group on a monthly basis. This is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/

NHSEI also publish hospital deaths for England, which includes data on age groups and location. Weekly data is also published, which includes information on ethnicity, age group and gender. NHSEI only collects information that is made publicly available already. These publications are available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/