Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the release of the covid-19 contact tracing app.

We have already released a pilot version of the app to a selected group of ‘Early Adopter’ users - NHS Volunteer Responders and residents of the Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Newham. The pilot is helping us test how the app performs at scale and learn about the user experience. This will inform national roll out in due course.