Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what eligibility criteria is used to allocate discretionary Test and Trace Support Payments for each Local Authority area in England.

The UK Health Security Agency considers a range of factors to allocate discretionary funding for the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. This centres on incidence levels and the number of discretionary payments made by the local authority in the last allocation period. Local authorities are responsible for setting the criteria for discretionary payments in their areas.