Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a centralised database is being used by Public Health England to record the information provided to them by schools who report positive cases of covid-19.

Local Health Protection Teams record COVID-19 clusters or outbreaks reported to them by schools on HPZone – a web-portal used for case and outbreak management. Nationally, Public Health England reports on the number of suspected and confirmed clusters and outbreaks linked to schools in the weekly surveillance report, available to view at the following link:

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