Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2020 to Question 49689, whether positive covid-19 results of NHS hospital patients are shared with local authorities.

Public Health England publishes data on positive COVID-19 tests in the National Health Service at upper and lower tier local authority level on GOV.UK as part of the information on pillar 1 testing available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-track-coronavirus-cases

Local authorities are also notified about individual positive test results of hospital patients when these form part of outbreak and contact tracing investigations involving local authorities.