Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will work with FIXR to incorporate contact tracing into their app.

The Department currently has no plans to work with FIXR to incorporate contact tracing into their app.

The NHS Test and Trace App is part of the wider National Health Service Test and Trace service and aims to help break chains of COVID-19 transmission. It complements enhanced contact tracing. It will allow users to check if they have COVID-19 symptoms and order a test if needed. It will also ensure that users are alerted if they have been near other app users who have tested positive for COVID-19 and helps users keep track of any self-isolation period and how to access advice. It also lets users know the level of coronavirus risk in their postcode district and lets them check-in to different venues using QR codes so that they can receive alerts it they have visited a venue where they may have come into contact with COVID-19.