Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 56052

Long Covid: Children and Young People

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of a national register of children and young people diagnosed with long covid.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The most recent data from the Winter COVID-19 Infection Study, a joint study carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Health Security Agency, shows that, for the period 6 February 2024 to 7 March 2024, an estimated two million pe...

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