Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2021 to Question 20414 on NHS: Software, what data his Department holds on the number of new downloads of the NHS Covid-19 App in each month from January 2021.
Data on the number of daily downloads of the NHS COVID-19 app are held by the Department and since February 2021 this data has been published weekly. There have been over five million downloads of the app since January 2021 and this information is available at the following link:
https://stats.app.covid19.nhs.uk/
This information shows the number of unique user downloads in England and Wales. It does not include repeat downloads, such as following deletion or to multiple devices from the same user account. The trend in cumulative downloads since December 2020 is also shown.