Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reinstating funding for the ZOE covid-19 study.
Due to the reduction in serious illness and deaths from COVID-19 we have begun a new phase of living with the virus. The Government will continue monitoring the virus through maintaining scaled back surveillance studies such as the Office for National Statistics’ COVID-19 Infection Survey and other data sources including genomic sequencing. We will keep all surveillance activities under review to ensure we have the capabilities to defend against a new variant.