Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is making provision for the collection of data on the prevalence of covid-19 under the strategy for living with coronavirus due to be announced by the Government on 21 February 2022.

The Government will continue to monitor COVID-19 cases, including using genomic sequencing, to allow insights into the evolution of the virus. The UK Health Security Agency will maintain scaled down surveillance capabilities including the COVID-19 Infection Survey population level survey, genomic sequencing and additional data. This will be augmented by continuing the SIREN and Vivaldi studies.