Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish, by local authority area, the number of (a) personnel carrying out covid-19 contact tracing in England and (b) close contacts (i) identified and (ii) traced by those personnel.

Contact tracing happening at a local level is not separate to that happening at a national level – all the information provided feeds into the central NHS Test and Trace. We have a national team of 12,000 call handler (Tier 3) contact tracers supported by our web-based contact tracing service and expanded local health protection teams based around the country reaching close contacts of thousands of positive cases and we are encouraged by the progress so far and user feedback.

All information regarding those transferred to the contact tracing service is available at GOV.UK by region, upper tier local authority, total and percentage reached.