Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he taking to help ensure that Directors of Public Health have access to the contact tracing data they require to bring down covid-19 infection rates.

We continue to work with Directors of Public Health and local authority tracing teams across England. This includes the regular sharing of contact tracing data and discussions on local outbreak management plans to reduce COVID-19 infection rates. These arrangements are formalised within a local trace operations standard operating procedure, which includes a data sharing agreement. Information obtained through contact tracing is recorded on the Contact Tracing and Advice Service system in real time.