Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the identity of people notified of potential exposure to covid-19 via the contact tracing app will be available automatically to the relevant authorities for contact tracing.

The app has been designed for use for National Health Service care, public health management, or evaluation and research.

If you become unwell with symptoms of COVID-19, you can allow the app to inform the NHS and trigger a notification that the NHS will then send, anonymously, to other app users with whom you came into significant contact over the previous few days.

The app will be part of a wider approach that also will involve manual contact tracing and testing. We are working out how the data from the app can link to these elements.

We will always comply with the law around the use of data, including the provisions of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.