Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an area-based assessment of the correlation between numbers of residents having no recourse to public funds and the largest numbers of deaths involving covid-19; and if she will make a statement.

The Government has already commissioned work from Public Health England to consider the impact of various factors such as ethnicity, obesity, age, gender and geographical location and how these may have an impact on someone’s susceptibility to the virus. We will consider whether further work is necessary. .

Everyone who contracts Covid-19 will be treated for free, regardless of their immigration status. NHS trusts have been advised that no immigration checks are required for those undergoing testing or treatment for Covid-19. The Government therefore urges anyone who needs medical care for Covid-19 to seek it.