Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care workers have died from covid-19 (a) in total and (b) since 1 January 2021.

Mortality data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that 446 deaths involving COVID-19 among social care workers were registered in England and 23 in Wales, between 9 March 2020 and 28 December 2020. This data was recently published on 25 January 2021.

There is currently no data published beyond 28 December 2020 relating to care worker deaths from COVID-19. The next analysis by the ONS on this topic has not yet been scheduled.