Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been contacted by the NHS test and trace system on each day since 1 June 2020; and whether those contacts were made by (a) operation of the relevant app (b) the Phone Bank (c) directors of public health (d) the NHS locally; and if he will publish that data on a daily basis going forward.

The latest information on the number of people who have been contacted by the NHS Test and Trace Service was published on Thursday 6 August. This data refers to the first nine weeks of the service – 28 May – 29 July. The Department plans to continue to publish similar information on a weekly basis. Over the coming weeks, as the service matures, more information will be provided on a weekly basis, and details about what this will contain can be found in the future development section at the end of the report.