Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there is a delay in data being inputted onto the national covid-19 contact tracing database.
Laboratory reporting and data flow issues and cases not providing contacts in a timely manner have caused some delays. Files exceeding the maximum file size allowed when transferring data into central systems has also led to delays in the past. However, this issue has now been addressed and a number of automated and manual checks are in place.