Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to ensure that all local authorities receive guidance on covid-19 local contact tracing initiatives.

Local authorities are a key part of contact tracing and are working with the NHS Test and Trace service. Public Health England and representatives from the local government sector are developing the details of key aspects of the testing and tracing service, focused especially on local outbreak management.