Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how a patient's covid-19 test result is considered with regard to (a) GDPR and (b) data protection legislation.

Protecting the privacy of patients’ data is a key priority for the Government and NHS Test and Trace, which is committed to the highest ethical and security standards. All data regarding patients’ COVID-19 test results are handled in line with the General Data Protection Regulation and other relevant legislation, and data are used only for the purposes of National Health Service care, management, evaluation and research, as set out in published privacy information for COVID-19 testing.