Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to require care homes to publish data on the number and proportion of their residents that (a) have been tested for covid-19, (b) returned a positive test, (c) have died and (b) were admitted to the care home with a positive covid-19 test since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
The Department will not make it a requirement for care homes to publish data on COVID-19 testing, as this would create a burden on them to manage an additional process at a time when many care homes are already facing substantial extra challenges to care for their residents during this pandemic.