Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish data from NHS Test and Trace on (a) how many people have been traced and (b) how many of those people have tested positive for covid-19.

Statistics were published on 30 July. Between 28 May and 22 July 2020 – 43,119 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had their case transferred to the contact tracing system, of whom 33,472 (77.6%) were reached and asked to provide details of recent close contacts; 222,589 contacts were identified and of these 184,703 (83.0%) were reached and advised to self-isolate. Currently data relating to how many of those contacts have tested positive for COVID-19 is not available.