Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which organisations and individuals were consulted on the data governance framework of the covid-19 tracing app being developed by NHSX.

We have been consulting on our plans with the Information Commissioner, the National Data Guardian’s Panel, the National Cyber Security Centre and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, as well as with representatives from Understanding Patient Data and volunteers who provided a patient and public perspective. We have established an ethics advisory board for the app, chaired by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery from University College London who previously headed the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.