Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure more detailed data collection for the purposes of covid-19 case identification.
Public Health England identifies and collects data on laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19. These data include demographic details such as date of birth, sex and postcode, which can be used to link with other datasets, such as the Hospital Episode Statistics datasets, in order to obtain additional information.