Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is collecting data on the gender of people (a) reporting symptoms of, (b) returning a positive test for, (c) admitted to hospital with, (d) requiring intensive care as a result of, (e) requiring ventilation as a result of and (f) dying of covid-19.

Data on the sex of people reporting potential COVID-19 symptoms to the National Health Service 111 and 999 telephone services and 111 online is collected through the NHS Pathways Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard. This provides a count of the number of assessments, rather than the number of people reporting symptoms. Further information is available on the NHS Digital website at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mi-potential-covid-19-symptoms-reported-through-nhs-pathways-and-111-online/latest

Public Health England publishes data on the sex of people in England who have tested positive for COVID-19. Further information is available on the GOV.UK website at the following link:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is responsible for publishing mortality statistics for deaths registered in England and Wales. They publish provisional weekly deaths registrations, including deaths involving COVID-19, which are currently published for deaths registered up to 1 May 2020 and include breakdown by sex. This is available on the ONS website at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending1may2020

Data on the sex of people admitted to hospital with, requiring intensive care as a result of, or requiring ventilation as a result of COVID-19 are currently not collected centrally.