Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the developers of the Zoe covid-19 symptom tracking application on (a) testing of people reporting symptoms and (b) ensuring the data collected by that application is (i) used with consent of people taking part and (ii) remains in the remit of the Information Commissioner's Office.

Project OASIS was established to cohere data from symptom tracking applications and is currently receiving the data from the Zoe COVID-19 symptom tracking app via the SAIL databank in conjunction with BREATHE. There have been limited conversations with the developers of ZOE linked to project OASIS.

Project OASIS may receive data on testing of people reporting symptoms into the platform. This data would be self-reported and is not official testing data. This does not form part of the dataset that is used by OASIS and OASIS does not have access to individual level testing data. OASIS only uses the fields that are necessary for its purpose, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation. The arrangement is governed by a Data Sharing Agreement and the privacy notice of the app was reviewed to ensure that the intended use of the data fits within that which individuals consented to.