Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for public health teams in local authorities to be provided with personable and identifiable (a) real time or (b) near real time testing data to enable a more timely response to localised outbreaks of covid-19.
From 20 July and to augment the standing local arrangements between Public Health England (PHE) and Directors of Public Health, PHE will share daily fully identifiable (including names) test, case and contact tracing data via a dashboard with Directors of Public Health to further support their investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak.