Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) BAME people and (b) people of a Bangladeshi background who have contracted covid-19 since summer 2020 as compared to other ethnic groups.
The information is not available in the format requested.
Public Health England publishes COVID-19 incidence per 100,000 population by ethnicity in the national flu and COVID-19 surveillance report on a weekly basis which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports