Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of GDPR legislative framework on the Government's covid-19 testing and tracing programme plans.

The Government’s test and trace programme will bring together the National Health Service COVID-19 app, expanded web and phone-based contact tracing, and swab testing for those with potential COVID-19 symptoms. Each element of the programme has been developed with full regard to all applicable data protection laws.

We have published a Data Protection Impact Assessment and Privacy Notice for the app’s roll out to the Isle of Wight and will provide updates to these if there are any significant updates to the app and before the national roll out.