Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the NHSX covid-19 contact tracing app will be integrated into local track and trace plans implemented by local authorities.

The National Health Service COVID-19 app is new technology to assist with a well-established technique of contact tracing. It will work alongside the wider programme of Test and Trace, helping the country return safely to normality. The goal of the app is to reduce transmission of the virus by alerting people who may have been exposed to the virus so they can take action to protect themselves, the people they care about and the NHS.