Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of the new variant of COVID-19 were recorded in (1) York, and (2) North Yorkshire, between, and inclusive of, 1 December and 30 December.
Public Health England does not hold the data in the format requested as this information is not collected by new variant and non-variant cases.
Available data from 1 December to 30 December inclusive showed positive COVID-19 in 1,558 cases in York and 4,024 for North Yorkshire.