Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had platform providers to enable the covid-19 contact tracing app to collect data while a phone is locked.

The Department has worked with a range of experts - scientists, doctors, security experts and privacy groups to decide on an appropriate model for the app - one which will save lives while maintaining the privacy of users. The app has been designed in such a way as to allow devices to collect contact events and information regardless of whether it is running in the background or not, and while the phone is locked or sleeping.