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Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

Question for Department for Education

UIN 182060, tabled on 16 April 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to use the NHS Test and Trace database system.

Answered on

28 April 2021

NHS Test and Trace data is used by the Department for Education to routinely monitor and report to Ministers on the take-up of COVID-19 testing in schools and colleges, and to support operational delivery. For example, the Department has used the data to proactively identify schools that required additional support to report test results for their setting during the initial on-site testing phase of the programme.