Coronavirus (COVID-19) – SLC COVID-19 risk assessment updated 26 January 2021

This release provides information on:

• confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for students and staff known to providers
• estimates for number of self-isolating students
• estimated cases per 100,000 for students and staff (autumn term only)
• numbers of providers by their higher education tiers of restriction (autumn term only)

The release was updated on 26 April with data up to 7 April.

This release provides estimates of coronavirus (COVID-19) related support schemes, grants and loans made to farms in England. Data are based on farms participating in the Farm Business Survey and are representative only of the survey population. The data covers the period March 2020 to February 2021, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The wording of this release was updated on the 17th January 2022 to clarify terminology relating to the Farm Business Survey population. There were no changes to any of the previously published figures.

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These reports summarise the surveillance of influenza, COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.

Weekly findings from community, primary care, secondary care and mortality surveillance systems are included in the reports.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2020 to 2021 season the weekly reports will be published all year round.

This page includes reports published from 8 October 2020 to the 8 July 2021.

Due to a misclassification of 2 subgroups within the Asian and Asian British and Black and Black British ethnic categories, the proportions of deaths for these ethnic categories in reports published between week 27 2021 and week 29 2021 were incorrect. These have been corrected from week 30 2021 report onwards.

The impact of the correction specifically affects the proportion of deaths with an Asian and Asian British and/or Black and Black British ethnic categories. The total number of deaths reported was unaffected. Other ethnicity data included in the reports were not affected by this issue.

Previous reports on influenza surveillance are also available for:

• 2019 to 2020 season
• 2018 to 2019 season
• 2017 to 2018 season
• 2016 to 2017 season
• 2015 to 2016 season
• 2014 to 2015 season
• 2013 to 2014 season

From 15 July this report will be available at National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2021 to 2022 season.

Reports from spring 2013 and earlier are available on https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140629102650tf_/http://www.hpa.org.uk/Publications/InfectiousDiseases/Influenza/">the UK Government Web Archive.

View previous COVID-19 surveillance reports.

This page outlines payments made to institutions for claims they have made to ESFA for various grants. These include, but are not exclusively, COVID-19 support grants. Information on funding for grants based on allocations will be on the specific page for the grant.

Claim-based grants included

Senior mental health lead training

Financial assistance towards the cost of training a senior member of school or college staff in mental health and wellbeing in the 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023, 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 financial years. The information provided is for payments up to the end of March 2025.

COVID-19 16 to 19 tuition fund 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022

Funding for eligible 16 to 19 institutions to deliver small group and/or one-to-one tuition for disadvantaged students and those with low prior attainment to help support education recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to continued pandemic disruption during academic year 2020 to 2021 some institutions carried over funding from academic year 2020 to 2021 to 2021 to 2022.

Therefore, any considerations of spend or spend against funding allocations should be considered across both years.

School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19)

Financial assistance available to schools to cover increased premises, free school meals and additional cleaning-related costs associated with keeping schools open over the Easter and summer holidays in 2020, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals: additional costs

Financial assistance available to meet the additional cost of the provision of free school meals to pupils and students where they were at home during term time, for the period January 2021 to March 2021.

Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding

Financial assistance for alternative provision settings to provide additional transition support into post-16 destinations for year 11 pupils from June 2020 until the end of the autumn term (December 2020). This has now been updated to include funding for support provided by alternative provision settings from May 2021 to the end of February 2022.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) 2021 qualifications fund for schools and colleges

Financial assistance for schools, colleges and other exam centres to run exams and assessments during the period October 2020 to March 2021 (or for functional skills qualifications, October 2020 to December 2020). Now updated to include claims for eligible costs under the 2021 qualifications fund for the period October 2021 to March 2022.

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These statistics on transport use are published monthly.

For each day, the Department for Transport (DfT) produces statistics on domestic transport:

• road traffic in Great Britain
• rail passenger journeys in Great Britain
• Transport for London (TfL) tube and bus routes
• bus travel in Great Britain (excluding London)

The associated methodology notes set out information on the data sources and methodology used to generate these headline measures.

From September 2023, these statistics include a second rail usage time series which excludes Elizabeth Line service (and other relevant services that have been replaced by the Elizabeth line) from both the travel week and its equivalent baseline week in 2019. This allows for a more meaningful like-for-like comparison of rail demand across the period because the effects of the Elizabeth Line on rail demand are removed. More information can be found in the methodology document.

The table below provides the reference of regular statistics collections published by DfT on these topics, with their last and upcoming publication dates.

This is a record of the discussion of SAGE 104 on 28 January 2022. The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

Redactions within this document have been made to remove any names of junior officials (under SCS) or names of anyone for national security reasons. SAGE 104 includes redactions of 19 junior officials.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

The HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) COVID-19 statistics provides monthly data on the HMPPS response to COVID-19. It addresses confirmed cases of the virus in prisons and the Youth Custody Service sites, deaths of those individuals in the care of HMPPS and mitigating action being taken to limit the spread of the virus and save lives.

Data includes:

• Deaths where prisoners, children in custody or supervised individuals have died having tested positive for COVID-19 or where there was a clinical assessment that COVID-19 was a contributory factor in their death.

• Confirmed COVID-19 cases in prisoners and children in custody (i.e. positive tests).

• Narrative on capacity management data for prisons.

Pre-release access

The bulletin was produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. For the bulletin pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice:

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State for Prisons and Probation; Permanent Secretary; Second Permanent Secretary; Private Secretaries (x6); Deputy Director of Data and Evidence as a Service and Head of Profession, Statistics; Director General for Policy and Strategy Group; Deputy Director Joint COVID 19 Strategic Policy Unit; Head of News; Deputy Head of News and relevant press officers (x2)

HM Prison and Probation Service:

Director General Chief Executive Officer; Private Secretary - Chief Executive Officer; Director General Operations; Deputy Director of COVID-19 HMPPS Response; Deputy Director Joint COVID 19 Strategic Policy Unit

Related links

Update on COVID-19 in prisons

Prison estate expanded to protect NHS from coronavirus risk

Measures announced to protect NHS from coronavirus risk in prisons

Costs associated with the COVID-19 Inquiry paid by government departments for Quarter 4 23/24.

Data include COVID-19 related deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in custodial settings among service users.

Pre-release access

The release was produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. For the release, pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice:

Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State; Permanent Secretary; Minister and Permanent Secretary Private Secretaries (x8); Special Advisors (x2); Director General for Policy and Strategy Group; Deputy Director Data and Evidence as a Service - interim; Head of Profession, Statistics; Head of Prison Safety and Security Statistics; Head of News; Deputy Head of News and relevant press officers (x2).

HMPPS:

Chief Executive Officer; Director General Prisons; Chief Executive and Director General Private Secretaries and Heads of Office (x4); Deputy Director of COVID-19 HMPPS Response; Deputy Director Joint COVID 19 Strategic Policy Unit (x2); Director General of Probation and Wales; Executive Director Probation and Women; Executive Director of Youth Custody Service; Executive Director HMPPS Wales; Executive Director, Performance Directorate; Head of Health, Social Care and Substance Misuse Services; Head of Capacity Management and Custodial Capacity Manager.

Related links

Update on COVID-19 in prisons

Prison estate expanded to protect NHS from coronavirus risk

Measures announced to protect NHS from coronavirus risk in prisons

COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes performance data, as at 31 December 2022 (published 7 February 2023)

This update on the performance of the COVID-19 Loan Guarantee Schemes includes:

• the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)
• the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)
• the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS)

The data in this publication is as of 31 December 2022 unless otherwise stated. It comes from information submitted to the British Business Bank’s scheme portal by accredited scheme lenders.

Bounce Back Loan Scheme performance data, as at 31 July 2022 (published 5 September 2022)

This update on the performance of the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) includes:

• specific information on the value of loans marked as suspected fraud
• claims made and settled by individual lenders who are accredited for the scheme

The data in this publication is as at 31 July 2022, unless otherwise stated. It comes from information submitted to the British Business Bank’s scheme portal by accredited lenders.

COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes repayment data, as at 31 March 2022 (published 28 July 2022)

This publication provided an update on the performance of the government’s COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes, including:

• the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)
• the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS)
• the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)

The data was taken from the British Business Bank’s portal as at 31 March 2022.