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Andrew Snowden Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the prevalence of long covid in children and young people in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.


Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative
Fylde
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the prevalence of long covid in children and young people in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.
Answer
Ashley Dalton
Labour
West Lancashire
Commons

Answered on
12 June 2025
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 people, or 3.3% of the population, in private households in England and Scotland, self-reported experiencing long COVID symptoms more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. The following table shows a breakdown of this figure by age group:
Age group Estimate
Three to 17 years old 111,816
18 to 34 years old 406,538
35 to 44 years old 294,099
45 to 54 years old 397,802
55 to 64 years old 389,977
65 to 74 years old 271,374
75 years old and over 113,467
While no estimate has been made specifically for Lancashire, the same dataset from the ONS estimated 270,939 people of all ages self-reporting experiencing long COVID symptoms in the North West of England region in that same time period.
 
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Photo of Andrew SnowdenAndrew Snowden Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)​

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the prevalence of long covid in children and young people in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.

Photo of Andrew SnowdenAndrew Snowden Opposition Assistant Whip (Commons)​

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the prevalence of long covid in adults in (a) England and (b) Lancashire.

Photo of Ashley DaltonAshley Dalton The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care​

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 people, or 3.3% of the population, in private households in England and Scotland, self-reported experiencing long COVID symptoms more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. The following table shows a breakdown of this figure by age group:

Age group Estimate
Three to 17 years old 111,816
18 to 34 years old 406,538
35 to 44 years old 294,099
45 to 54 years old 397,802
55 to 64 years old 389,977
65 to 74 years old 271,374
75 years old and over 113,467

While no estimate has been made specifically for Lancashire, the same dataset from the ONS estimated 270,939 people of all ages self-reporting experiencing long COVID symptoms in the North West of England region in that same time period.
 
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