Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how are cases of covid-19 in care homes being reported; and whether that data is being published.

Suspected outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes are reported by care homes to health protection teams at Public Health England (PHE). Data on these reported outbreaks were published on 29 April 2020 by Lower Tier Local Authorities, Government Office Regions and PHE Centres. The outbreaks were reported between the 3 March and 28 April 2020. Weekly totals and a cumulative total for the time period are presented as well as the proportion of care homes which have reported an outbreak over this time period. These data will be updated weekly and are available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/covid-19-number-of-outbreaks-in-care-homes-management-information