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1216596

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the availability of covid-19 testing for (a) care home residents and (b) home care recipients (i) under and (ii) over 65 years old.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	903706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>Testing kits for staff and residents are available for all adult care homes in England through the whole care home portal.</p><p>Over 9,000 care homes for older people and those with dementia have had their testing kits and we are currently getting testing kits out to residential homes for adults under 65.</p><p>Home care workers - and those who receive care at home - with symptoms of coronavirus can book tests via the National Health Service portal or 119.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/06/2020 15:49:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1216833

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which categories of health and social care providers are eligible for antibody testing for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	63277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>NHS England has made antibody tests available to all its staff including those working on National Health Service premises but not directly employed by the NHS, and those in primary, community, and mental health care including community pharmacists. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/antibody-testing-programme-roll-out-for-nhs-staff-and-patients-letter-from-pauline-philip-and-professor-steven-powis" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/antibody-testing-programme-roll-out-for-nhs-staff-and-patients-letter-from-pauline-philip-and-professor-steven-powis</a></p><p>Antibody testing is also being made available for all paid social care staff in England.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/09/2020 11:46:51 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1216300

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many drive through covid-19 tests have been carried out in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) England in each month since 23 March 2020; and how many of those tests had results generated within the 48-hour target.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	62552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/08/2020 answer text <p>We do not publish data by region. All information surrounding turnaround times are released weekly on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 19/08/2020 20:29:58 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 32215 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1216345

registered interest
date	22/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 tests performed at home were sent to testing centres on each day from 27 April 2020 to 5 May 2020.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	62458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>Using data from Royal Mail the number of home tests conducted in this time frame are shown in the following table. It should be noted that the Royal Mail’s data captures when the kit is delivered at their delivery office near the laboratory. For example, if the kit is ‘scanned as delivered’ on 4 May, it will then make it to the laboratory the following morning, 5 May, at the agreed ‘drop-off’ time.</p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Tests returned are counted and reported only once they have been processed by the laboratory and will appear in the data for pillar 2.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Data on the number of tests processed by pillar is available at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing" target="_blank">https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Information on the methodology of how testing data is compiled is available at the following link:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-methodology</a></ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Date</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Kits scanned as delivered</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">26 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">954</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">27 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,069</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">28 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,762</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">29 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,377</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">30 April 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,966</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">4,895</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,907</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6,906</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">4 May 2020</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">7,110</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Total</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35,946</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately previous answer version 32209 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries 62159 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2020 14:02:13 question first ministerially corrected 23/11/2020 10:54:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1205613

registered interest
date	19/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were tested for covid-19 on each day from 23 May 2020 to 19 June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	61719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2020 answer text <p>The ‘people tested’ measure was initially used to count people who had not been previously received a test, deliberately excluding subsequent instances an individual would have been tested if they had been tested once or more previously. It no longer usefully reflects the volume of tests carried out as, for example, a healthcare worker receiving their second, third or fourth test since the start of the pandemic would not be counted as they have been tested once before. Therefore, the people tested figure will be published on a weekly basis within the NHS Test and Trace statistics rather than daily and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports</a></p><p>The Department has also published transparency data for the number of people tested for coronavirus (England): 30 January to 27 May 2020 which is weekly and covers the period before Test and Trace. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-people-tested-for-coronavirus-england-30-january-to-27-may-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-people-tested-for-coronavirus-england-30-january-to-27-may-2020</a></p><p>Daily data for the period 20 March to 2 July is available for the United Kingdom as daily and cumulative people tested (discontinued measure) as part of the time series of testing statistics is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public</a></p><p>This data is not available to finer resolutions than whole UK or England depending on the publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 03/09/2020 09:17:58 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 31791 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1205614

registered interest
date	19/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to resume publishing data on the number of people tested each day for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	61720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2020 answer text <p>The ‘people tested’ measure was initially used to count people who had not been previously received a test, deliberately excluding subsequent instances an individual would have been tested if they had been tested once or more previously. It no longer usefully reflects the volume of tests carried out as, for example, a healthcare worker receiving their second, third or fourth test since the start of the pandemic would not be counted as they have been tested once before. Therefore, the people tested figure will be published on a weekly basis within the NHS Test and Trace statistics rather than daily and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-test-and-trace-statistics-england-weekly-reports</a></p><p>The Department has also published transparency data for the number of people tested for coronavirus (England): 30 January to 27 May 2020 which is weekly and covers the period before Test and Trace. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-people-tested-for-coronavirus-england-30-january-to-27-may-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-people-tested-for-coronavirus-england-30-january-to-27-may-2020</a></p><p>Daily data for the period 20 March to 2 July is available for the United Kingdom as daily and cumulative people tested (discontinued measure) as part of the time series of testing statistics is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public</a></p><p>This data is not available to finer resolutions than whole UK or England depending on the publication.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 03/09/2020 09:27:49 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 31792 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1205316

registered interest
date	18/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to make funding available to clinical research organisations who are able to offer free covid-19 tests to their local community.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	61519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/08/2020 answer text <p>Anyone in the United Kingdom who has COVID-19 symptoms can get a free test from NHS Test and Trace. The Government is working in partnership with industry, academia, the National Health Service and many others to double our testing capacity, protect local communities and save lives.</p><p>Anyone who needs a COVID-19 test can get one at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 27/08/2020 13:29:46 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 31455 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1204741

registered interest
date	17/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to roll out antibody testing to all key workers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	60739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2020 answer text <p>On 21 May the Government announced plans for a national roll-out of antibody testing in the National Health Service and social care sector. Since the end of May, lab-based antibody tests have been available to all NHS staff that want one. For care staff, antibody testing will be rolled out in a phased way across regions in England. Any expansion to the antibody testing program will be announced at the appropriate time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 29/07/2020 11:20:33 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 31055 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1204758

registered interest
date	17/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for the provision of localised data on people that tested positive for covid-19 to (a) local authorities and (b) GPs.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	60760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>All upper tier local authorities have access to record level (including sex, age, occupation and postcode) test and case data. Directors of Public Health are also receiving fully identifiable test, case and contact tracing data where the case data includes, address, postcode, sex, age, NHS Number, occupation, test date, and additional data describing progress through the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing process. Public Health England (PHE) provides access to this data via a secure platform to Directors of Public Health to support them to carry out their outbreak management responsibilities. This data is currently updated on a daily basis.</p><p>PHE began providing record level positive test data, including postcodes, to local authorities (including Directors of Public Health) on 24 June.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 53316 56061 57982 67607 question first answered 03/11/2020 22:37:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1204356

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the covid-19 diagnostic antibody tests being (a) evaluated and (b) supported by the Government contain animal-derived antibodies.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	59889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is backing efforts to develop a homegrown antibody test. A business consortium, UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC), including Oxford University, Abingdon Health, BBI Solutions and CIGA Healthcare has launched, in order to design and develop a new antibody test to determine whether people have had the virus. The development of this test will not involve testing on animals.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 25/06/2020 12:24:15 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 31044 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill