Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November to Question 102802 on Coronavirus: Newcastle upon Tyne, what data his Department holds on the proportion of transmissions in Newcastle that have taken place among (a) university students and (b) the rest of the community; and in what format that data is available.

We publish weekly data on the number of incidents in each setting with at least one laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19. Data as of 3 December is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/940878/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w49.pdf