Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on trends in the level of acute respiratory outbreaks in schools among (a) Black, Asian and minority ethnic pupils and (b) pupils with other protected characteristics; and if he will make a statement.

Data on the number and proportion of people recorded within acute respiratory outbreaks in schools are not available in the format requested.

Public Health England provides information on the number of acute respiratory outbreaks in schools in its weekly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveillance report, available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/weekly-covid-19-surveillance-report-published