Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
(asked on 4th February 2021) - View Source
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 rate of funding provided to local authorities to carry out covid-19 contact tracing; and what plans his Department has to increase that funding.
This question was answered on 16th March 2021
The Contain Outbreak Management Fund was expanded from the initial £400 million made available in May. To date, the fund has committed over £1 billion to English local authorities.