Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to provide daily updates to (a) the Sussex Resilience Forum and (b) other resilience forums on the capacity and prioritisation of Pillar 2 testing capability.

Throughout the pandemic, our approach has been to increase transparency around the Government’s response to the coronavirus and we are always looking to improve the data we publish. We are working with the country’s official statisticians to provide the most useful statistics to help the public understand how NHS Test and Trace is operating in a clear and transparent way. Every day local authorities get test, case and contact tracing data, with further data shared with local Directors of Public Health, to help control and manage outbreaks in their area.