Insufficient progress made on data issues over the years has hindered government’s initial pandemic response. For instance, local government initially lacked access to information from NHS Test and Trace that they needed to deliver their local pandemic response.34 A submission from the International Longevity Centre UK noted that, despite successive promises from the government, “there has been a lack of coordinated information recording and record sharing between health professionals. The government has built an expansive data infrastructure to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, but had to do so almost from scratch when it should have already existed”.35