Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the sex of participants is not collected by the NHS survey hosted at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus-status-checker/.

The National Health Service Coronavirus Status checker collects only the minimum amount of data necessary to predict the likely demand on NHS services. NHSX plans to iterate the survey and may add gender to this collection, if it would help predict demand more effectively.