PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Disease Control (5 October 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National COVID-19 surveillance report: 2 October 2020 (week 40) published by Public Health England on 2 October 2020, what the weekly case rate per 100,000 cases by Index of Multiple Deprivation decile was in that reporting period; and if he will include data in that format in future covid-19 surveillance reports.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The national COVID-19 surveillance report published on 2 October included graphs of weekly COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 population by Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile and age group (10-39 year olds). The weekly COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 population by IMD quintile for week 39 (between 21 and 27 September 2020) is shown in the following table.

There is no longer a COVID-19 surveillance report but IMD quantiles will be included in the slide set accompanying the new combined flu and COVID-19 report, which published weekly.

COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 by IMD quintile in 10 to 39 year olds, in England

	IMD Q1	IMD Q2	IMD Q3	IMD Q4	IMD Q5
10 to 16 years	10.09	5.84	4.65	3.90	3.40
17 to 19 years	18.84	24.23	24.38	23.37	25.83
20 to 29 years	17.43	12.66	11.93	12.01	13.13
30 to 39 years	15.51	9.44	7.85	7.06	5.86

Source: The data is based on the latest surveillance report, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
2 November 2020