Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 6th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason .xls files instead of .xlsx or non-Excel files are being used to transfer covid-19 test data.
This question was answered on 18th November 2020
A standardised Excel format was used for the purpose of transferring files securely between different parts of the system.