Mr. Simon Osman:

I am also honoured to be here today to take part in this meeting and represent the technology industry. My background is building technology companies, specifically in the software space, and building applications and infrastructure businesses. More than 12 months ago now, we formed tested.me. The purpose of the company was built on the desire to help companies and individuals work through and recover from the challenges of the pandemic and beyond. We realise that the need for an individual to be able to present a trusted health status using a mobile phone application would be hugely important, alongside a reporting solution and a health information platform. Due to the nature of the information needed, we felt that the mobile application needed to include ID verification in order to create trust, so you go through this process when you download our app. We also give individuals a sense of choice and ownership, so in our app you can see share history, you can choose the level of detail that you want to share, and you can also delete information.

Importantly, the third principle was to make sure that our system was interoperable. As we have gone through the last year, we have found that this aspect is extremely important in terms of building a compliant digital platform. This means that we understand that it is necessary to be able to connect with health platforms, labs, other patient applications, e-commerce systems and booking systems to create that end-to-end solution.

Version 1 of our solution went live in August of last year, with a focus on helping workplaces specifically. Over time, we have developed the product to meet other needs such as travel and the events space. We have had approximately 300,000 active connections on our platform and thousands of test results uploaded daily. The active users are across many countries and we are very proud of the work we have done in schools, workplaces and hospitality. We are now in discussions regarding supporting the travel area specifically, working with the island of Santorini in Greece and also reopening some major events this summer. We also achieved a successful pilot within a main airport in the UK.

Our journey has been an extremely interesting one. I am sure everyone on this call today has experienced an interesting 12 months with the challenges that we faced. As a company we have been called in by the UK Government into many steering committees in terms of the Covid response. We are part of the Digital Healthcare Council in the UK. I have also presented to the Conservative Science & Technology Forum regarding digital identification and digital health passes. We have been working with the NHS in terms of the app and integration. We are HIQA compliant as a company. We are working towards our ISO 27001 certification. We are Cyber Essentials Plus certified, and we also have our own information security management system.

At a global level, we also work within the global health pass and we also sit on the Vaccination Credential Initiative group, which is important in terms of understanding the global standards and the protocols that need to be in place to create this borderless environment again in terms of travel and get society moving. It has been an absolute pleasure to introduce myself. I would like to hand back to the Chairman now for the question and answer session.