Contact Tracing: Computer Software

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) risks and (b) shortcomings in relation to the covid-19 tracing app being trialled on the Isle of Wight.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 16th June 2020

The purpose of the Isle of Wight phase is to understand the effectiveness of the Test and Trace programme ahead of the full roll-out to the rest of the United Kingdom and to improve the user experience of the National Health Service COVID-19 app.

We have worked quickly to build the NHS COVID-19 app because that is what the situation demands. But we have not let that urgency compromise our commitment to transparency, ethics and the law. We are also taking technical assurance very seriously, with an independent ethics advisory board ensuring that the NHS COVID-19 app we deliver will be stable, resilient, secure, performant, highly usable and above all effective in the fight against COVID-19.

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