Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will report on all deaths with covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate that occur (a) in hospitals, (b) in care homes, (c) at home and (d) elsewhere.
The Office for National Statistics publishes detailed data each week, drawing on data from death registration systems. Those statistics include a breakdown by region, age and gender for England and Wales and also provide direct links to equivalent sources for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Department publishes a daily count, covering the whole of the United Kingdom, showing how many people have died following a positive test. That source does not provide a breakdown by region or other factors, but it is sourced directly from data published by public health organisations in each of the four nations of the UK; and each of those provides a detailed count by region, local authority or health board. Data from Public Health England, for example, provides both a trend series and a breakdown by local authority.