Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether data from the covid-19 contact tracing app will be uploaded to a central database; who will have access to that data; and what safeguards will be put in place for that data.

We have built the app with privacy by default and by design. The App complies with GDPR as well as the Data Protection Act 2018 to ensure the highest level of safeguards for app users.

If app users choose to submit their data to the National Health Service, either proactively or when requesting a test, it will be held on a NHS database held to the highest security standards. In addition to the continual monitoring, review and oversight we continue to consult the National Cyber Security Centre to review and supplement our processes.