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1203095

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how long it will take, under the test and trace service, to trace people's contacts following a COVID-19 test; and what assessment they have made of whether this is quick enough to isolate people before infection spreads.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL5604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched its new NHS Test and Trace service on 28 May 2020.</p><p>If someone experiences symptoms of COVID-19 and gets tested, systems are in place to ensure that the NHS Test and Trace service automatically receives information if their test result is positive. Providing NHS Test and Trace have contact details, such as email, text or landline, they will aim to contact people within 24 hours of receiving the test result.</p><p> </p><p>The more rapidly we can identify people who may have been at risk of infection and, if necessary, tell them to self-isolate, the more effectively we can reduce the R rate and the spread of the virus and maintain transmission at low levels.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 24/06/2020 10:33:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1200699

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many people have been (1) tracked, and (2) traced, for each day since the launch of the current scheme; and how many people have been advised to self-isolate for 14 days as a result. [T]
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL5277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>Data on the number of people tracked and traced as part of the NHS Test and Trace programme are not available in the format requested.</p><p>The Department publishes weekly experimental statistics from the NHS Test and Trace service in England. Figures include contact tracing undertaken online, by local health protection teams and by contact tracing staff.</p><p>The data shows that between 28 May and 10 June 2020 14,045 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had their case transferred to the contact tracing system, of whom 10,192 were asked to provide details of recent contacts. 96,746 contacts were identified and of these 87,639 were reached and advised to self-isolate.</p><p>A copy of <em>Experimental Statistics Weekly NHS Test and Trace bulletin, England: 28 May – 10 June 2020</em> is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/06/2020 14:07:53 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name test_and_trace_bulletin_week_2_28_may_to_10_june.pdf title test_and_trace_bulletin_week_2_28_may_to_10_june
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1203518

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the data obtained so far from the Test and Trace programme and, in particular, what it shows about how people are contracting COVID-19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL5636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2020 answer text <p>To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet <em>Testing – note for House of Lords</em> which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/07/2020 12:41:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Testing - note for House of Lords.pdf title Testing information factsheet
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1220852

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 tests have been made available but not processed as part of the NHS Test and Trace programme, broken down by the local authority area (1) to which they were sent, or (2) in which they were administered.
	tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
	uin	HL6454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data in this format. There will be many instances where the National Testing Programme sends kits out that are not used immediately, for example to be held at local sites for when they are needed.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 01/09/2020 11:52:37 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg

1205048

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have registered for the COVID-19 track and trace application on the Isle of Wight; and how many individuals affected by COVID-19 have been traced to date using that application.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mann
	uin	HL5861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>Over 50,000 people on the Isle of Wight downloaded and activated the app. Out of this number, on 18 June, 1,765 people had been notified that they had been in close contact with someone who had symptoms.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/06/2020 14:12:09 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

1205049

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people who were traced under the NHS Test and Trace system were so traced due to a (1) their own, and (2) another person’s, positive COVID-19 test.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mann
	uin	HL5862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>Experimental statistics were published on 18 June. Between 28 May and 10 June 2020 – 14,045 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had their case transferred to the contact tracing system, of whom 10,192 were reached and asked to provide details of recent close contacts (traced due to their own positive COVID-19 test); 96,746 contacts were identified and of these 87,639 were reached and advised to self-isolate (traced due to another person’s positive COVID-19 test).</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 30/06/2020 15:47:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

1301596

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2021
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they have spent to date on the COVID-19 test and trace system; and, of the total amount, how much has been spent on consultancy fees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL14109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2021 answer text <p>Around 2500 consultants from approximately 72 different consultancies have been hired by the Department for any period from 1 March 2020 to the present day to undertake work on the planning and then rollout of the NHS Test and Trace programme. The figures have changed week on week since the programme began. Information how these figures are apportioned between the planning and rollout phases is not held in an appropriate format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>In financial year 20-21, £450 million is budgeted for Professional Services, which includes management consultants. This was revised on 28 Feb 2021 from £438 million. We do not have an audited figure which differentiates between what was spent on the planning and the rollout stages of the Test and Trace Programme. Audited annual accounts will be published later this year for the Test and Trace Programme.</p><p>Every consultancy contract awarded by the Department contains a set of service objectives and activities which the suppliers will deliver. These are set out in the individual contracts which are published. The service objectives are linked to the overall programme plan and</p><p>business objectives for the Test and Trace initiative. Each contract has a different timeframe for the delivery and completion of its objectives; progress and performance is monitored by regular meetings and engagement with the supplier.</p><p>£450 million of the £22 billion funding for Test and Trace, is allocated to ‘professional services’ which includes management consultants. Audited annual accounts will be published later this year for the Test and Trace Programme.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL14106 HL14107 HL14108 question first answered 06/04/2021 13:32:18 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1248071

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to make the COVID-19 test and trace system local by default; and what are the timescales for the changes they plan to make to existing systems.
	tabling member printed	Lord Walney
	uin	HL9899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>The second NHS Test and Trace business plan was published on 10 December and set out how the Test and Trace service is strengthening its partnership with local government to tailor its response more to the needs of local communities and make the service faster, more reliable and even more accessible. This includes giving local public health teams more control through community-led testing; expanding local tracing partnerships, supported by potentially over £200 million per month of new funding through the Contain Outbreak Management Fund; working with local authorities to support them in providing better support for people who have to self-isolate; and using a shared framework of data, insight and analysis to identify clusters of new infections and potential local outbreaks.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 11/03/2021 17:27:34 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

1226215

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what (1) social, (2) economic, and (3) demographic, trends they have identified among those who have not been successfully traced via the NHS Test and Trace system; and what plans they have to implement measures to (a) target specific groups, and (b) use different methods of communication, to ensure that underrepresented groups are contact-traced.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL7054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/08/2020 answer text <p>The Contact Tracing Advisory Service is undertaking work to evaluate valid postcodes gathered through the service and are broken down across a range of trends to cover social, economic, and demographic factors, including includes analysis of valid and non-valid postcodes.</p><p>The service conducts research across different communities, including those hard to reach and areas of multiple deprivation; in order to understand the customer experience and difficulties encountered when engaging with it to continually improve the service.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 06/08/2020 11:08:20 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1247999

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of concerns raised by local authorities, in particular those raised by Cumbria County Council, about the performance of private companies carrying out track and trace operations to address the COVID-19 pandemic; and what plans they have to divert the resources provided to those companies to local authorities to ensure that contact tracing is local by default.
	tabling member printed	Lord Judd
	uin	HL9848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2021 answer text <p>We are working with local authorities and other community partners to minimise the risk of local outbreaks occurring to respond swiftly and effectively to stop the spread of COVID-19. As of 18 December, we have over 270 local contact tracing partnerships in place, with more in implementation. In the week 3 to 9 December, 96.6% of contacts where communication details were given were reached and told to self-isolate, an increase from 92.5% in the previous week.</p><p>To support these local responses, we have already made £700 million additional funding available for local authorities in England to develop robust, tailored outbreak control plans to identify and contain potential outbreaks.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 06/01/2021 12:46:53 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd