Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on developing the Government’s covid-19 contact tracing app to date; which companies were paid sums as part of that process; how much each such company received; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of that expenditure.

The cost of the National Health Service COVID-19 app will be £10.8 million as of 30 June 2020. This figure is based on the spend for developing and hosting the app together with associated policy, project, evaluation, assurance related activity. Details on individual contracts can be found on under Contract Finder on GOV.UK. Companies which helped to develop the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app include VMware/VMware Pivotal Labs, Zuhlke Engineering, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. Our investment in the Isle of Wight phase has provided us with valuable information that we can now take forward in a new solution that is right for the British public.