Contact Tracing: Computer Software

(asked on 17th 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 the (a) extent and (b) terms of Zühlke Engineering’s involvement has been in the management and development of the NHS covid-19 contact tracing app; and whether staff of Zühlke Engineering based outside of the UK will be able to access data from that app.


Answered by
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Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 29th June 2020

Zühlke Engineering has been awarded contracts for mobile development, and for build assurance and system integration. It has also been awarded a contract to support the app in later stages. Private commercial companies, including Zühlke Engineering, do not have access to personally identifiable data.

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