Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how are (a) cases of and (b) deaths from covid-19 being recorded by local authorities; and in what format that data is being recorded.

Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in England are reported by laboratories to Public Health England (PHE). These data are available at upper tier local authority level through the COVID-19 data dashboard, available to view at the following link:

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

Data on laboratory-confirmed deaths in England due to COVID-19 reported by National Health Service trusts and local PHE Health Protection Teams are collated and reported by PHE. The number and rate of deaths by PHE Centre area are available to view in the National COVID-19 weekly summary report at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Data on COVID-19 cases and deaths for the rest of the United Kingdom are provided by the Department, based on data from the devolved administrations.

Further information on how these data are collected is available at the following link:

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