Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is collating data on the ethnicity of people that have died from covid-19.

NHS England publishes deaths from COVID-19 reported in hospital settings on their website, which includes a breakdown by ethnicity. More information can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

The Office for National Statistics has published a provisional analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 by ethnicity for England and Wales for all deaths involving COVID-19 that occurred between 2 March and 15 April 2020. More information can be found at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/coronaviruscovid19relateddeathsbyethnicgroupenglandandwales/2march2020to15may2020

Public Health England (PHE) publishes weekly surveillance reports on GOV.UK with confirmed cases, hospitalisations and deaths broken down by ethnicity can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/weekly-covid-19-surveillance-report-published#history

PHE undertook a rapid review to better understand how COVID-19 may be having an impact on different ethnic groups. PHE published its epidemiological report on 2 June and the Minister for Equalities will be taking forward further work following this report which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-review-of-disparities-in-risks-and-outcomes