Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people in hospital have (a) the omicron variant (b) the delta variant and (c) another covid-19 variant.

Data on the number and proportion of people in hospital by COVID-19 variant is not available.

As Omicron is now the dominant strain in England, as of 01 January 2022 the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is no longer separately reporting Omicron statistics.

The UKHSA publishes hospitalisations data for COVID-19 overall, not broken down by variant, in the National influenza and COVID-19 report which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season.

The analysis is based on data from a sentinel network of acute National Health Service Trusts in England contributing enhanced data.