Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish, on a weekly basis, complete data of all outbreaks of covid-19 in educational settings including data from both (a)PHE reports and (b) the national school helpline that began operating on 17 September 2020.

Public Health England (PHE) publish acute respiratory infection incidents by different settings, including educational settings each week and is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

PHE also publish a breakdown of the number of cases of each variant in the United Kingdom twice a week. PHE is looking at ways to publish clusters and outbreaks by variant in different settings in a robust and clear way. This includes incidents escalated through the national school helpline. PHE will publish this data in due course.