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date	30/09/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Apple and Google on the incompatibility of the NHS covid-19 app with operating systems older than iOS 13.5 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	97685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>Officials have on-going discussions with Google and Apple to support app development. The app currently supports Apple iOS versions 13.5 and higher, and Android version Marshmallow (v6.0) and higher. This is because the app needs the Exposure Notification framework developed by Apple and Google, which is only available in these versions.</p><p> </p><p>This is the same in all countries with apps using the Google and Apple exposure notification API for contact tracing.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 09/11/2020 12:17:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

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registered interest
date	30/09/2020
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	Contact Tracing: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are unable to download the NHS covid-19 app as a result of their phones not support operating systems iOS 13.5 and Android 6.0 Marshmallow or newer.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	97686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>We estimate that around 10% of smartphone users are unable to download the National Health Service COVID-19 app due to their phones not supporting the necessary version of iOS or Android.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/11/2020 11:55:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse