Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on health outcomes for Latinos, and if he will make a statement.

The Department does not hold data on the health outcomes of people with an ethnicity of ‘Latino’.

Population health surveys and National Health Service data collections used for routine reporting of health outcomes by ethnic group, generally collect ethnicity using the same categories as those used in the decennial census in England. The census has never provided a ‘tick-box’ option related to ‘Latino’ ethnicity and therefore this information is not routinely available for reporting health outcomes.