Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths of people with learning disabilities from covid-19 have been notified to NHS England by the Learning Disability Mortality Review in each week since 1 March 2020.

Information on COVID-19 deaths of people with a learning disability notified to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme is available on the NHS England website at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-deaths-of-patients-with-a-learning-disability-notified-to-leder/

NHS England publishes COVID-19 daily deaths of people who have died in hospitals in England and had tested positive for COVID-19 or where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

These daily reports include a breakdown by such criteria as reporting trust, region, age, ethnicity, gender and specific pre-existing conditions, including learning disability and/or autism.

Public Health England is leading a rapid review to better understand how different factors such as ethnicity, deprivation, age, sex (male and female) and obesity can impact on how people are affected by COVID-19. The report is being finalised and will be published shortly.