Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how data in relation to the (a) gender, (b) age, (c) ethnicity and (d) location of a person's antibody test result is (i) collected (ii), distributed and (iii) analysed.

On 21 May the Government announced plans for a national roll-out of antibody testing in the National Health Service and social care sector. All NHS and adult social care staff in England are being offered an antibody test, with patients and care residents eligible at their clinician’s request. To date we have performed over 1.7 million tests through this route.

Antibody testing data is held by Public Health England with trusts across England routinely reporting data. This will enable analysis broken down by age, gender, ethnicity and geographic area. The data will also be used extensively with other healthcare data in the SIREN study.