Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department has collated on the number of cases of covid-19 recorded across campuses in England and Wales.

Numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases for those reporting ‘attending university’ in the contact tracing process are published weekly by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), this information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season.

The most recent release (6 January) covers the period from 23 October 2020 to 2 January 2022. UKHSA note that “If a case reports being in education, this does not specify that they attended the setting in person during the time that they were exposed/infectious (for example they may have been remote learning). In addition, cases that did attend in person may have been exposed in other settings, such as their household or while doing other activities. This data cannot be used to directly infer that these cases acquired their infection, or that they exposed others, in the education setting.”