was asked by his opposite number, Jonathan Ashworth, why public health departments were still not getting daily patient-identifiable results, instead having to wait a week to receive information that does not show who has the disease.
In response, the health secretary said: “The hon. gentleman asks about data. Patient identifiable data is available to local authorities when they sign a data protection agreement.”However multiple sources in local public health insist this is not the case.
While they are receiving more information than they were, some of it as a consequence of signing data-sharing agreements, they told the M.E.N.