AQW 7536/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 24/09/2020
Answered On Date: 08/02/2021
Priority Written: Yes

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health how many people are working as contact tracers as of 23 September 2020; and how this compares with each of the previous three months.

Answer:

The Public Health Agency has advised that at 23 September there were 115 staff available to work as contact tracers; 100 staff available in August; 84 staff available in July and 70 staff available in June.

As at Friday 29th January 2021, the Contact Tracing Service had 339 trained contact tracers comprising 47 full time staff; 115 part time staff; and 177 on a bank basis.