Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish covid-19 infection data for school and educational settings to improve the information available to teachers, parents and pupils.

Public Health England (PHE) reports on the number of suspected and confirmed clusters and outbreaks linked to schools in the weekly surveillance report which is available at the following link:

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

PHE publish a graph set alongside the weekly surveillance report, which includes additional figures within the ‘Community Surveillance’ and ‘Surveillance in educational-age cohorts’ sections. The most recent report is available at the following link:

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