Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on ensuring the adequacy of covid-19 data being collected by the Government on (a) ethnicity and (b) demographics.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly discusses a wide range of COVID-19 related matters with Cabinet colleagues.

Following the release of the Public Health England review into disparities in the risks and outcomes of COVID-19 in June 2020, the Minister for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch MP) is considering where and how the collection and quality of data, including around ethnicity and demographics, can be improved on, working with the Equality Hub, Government departments and their agencies.