PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups (20 April 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is collating data on the ethnicity of people that have died from covid-19.

Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)

Answer

NHS England publishes deaths from COVID-19 reported in hospital settings on their website, which includes a breakdown by ethnicity. More information can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

The Office for National Statistics has published a provisional analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 by ethnicity for England and Wales for all deaths involving COVID-19 that occurred between 2 March and 15 April 2020. More information can be found at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/coronaviruscovid19relateddeathsbyethnicgroupenglandandwales/2march2020to15may2020

Public Health England (PHE) publishes weekly surveillance reports on GOV.UK with confirmed cases, hospitalisations and deaths broken down by ethnicity can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/weekly-covid-19-surveillance-report-published#history

PHE undertook a rapid review to better understand how COVID-19 may be having an impact on different ethnic groups. PHE published its epidemiological report on 2 June and the Minister for Equalities will be taking forward further work following this report which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-review-of-disparities-in-risks-and-outcomes


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
25 August 2020

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