Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish data on the number of covid-19 hospitalisations among children aged 0 to 18 in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021 to date.

This information is not collected in the format requested. Data on hospital admissions for COVID-19 in children is published monthly by NHS England where the available age groups are 0 to five years old and six to 17 years old.

However, between 19 March and 31 December 2020, 929 children aged 0 to 17 years old were hospitalised with COVID-19 and 3,042 children aged 0 to 17 years old between 1 January 2021 and 3 November 2021.