Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received on the alleged omission of recommendations that could help protect BAME people from covid-19 from the Government's review of disparities in risks and outcomes.

Various representations were received on the alleged omission of recommendations from Public Health England’s report entitled ‘COVID-19: review of disparities in risks and outcomes’, published on 2 June 2020. No recommendations were removed.

Alongside the epidemiological review, Professor Fenton undertook a rapid evidence review and external stakeholder engagement with a significant number of individuals and organisations within the black, Asian and minority ethnic community, to hear their views, concerns and ideas about the impact of COVID-19 on their communities. The results of that work have now been published and will inform the Government’s next steps being taken forward by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch MP).