Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate additional Contain Outbreak Management Funding to local authorities for carrying out contact tracing in 2022-23.
We are currently assessing the future provision of the Contain Outbreak Management Fund (COMF). We continue to work with local authorities to ensure that the 2021/22 COMF delivers the objectives of Local Outbreak Management Plans to best support their communities.