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1329308

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
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 purpose is of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date that consortium was founded.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC) is not a Government organisation therefore the information requested on its creation and internal processes is not held centrally.</p><p>No funding has been allocated through the UK-RTC.</p><p>Members of the Consortium who have been awarded contracts have done so through compliant procurement processes unrelated to the UK-RTC.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10257 10258 10259 10261 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329309

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the membership of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date each Member was admitted to that consortium.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC) is not a Government organisation therefore the information requested on its creation and internal processes is not held centrally.</p><p>No funding has been allocated through the UK-RTC.</p><p>Members of the Consortium who have been awarded contracts have done so through compliant procurement processes unrelated to the UK-RTC.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10256 10258 10259 10261 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329310

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium (a) centrally and (b) to each of its members.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC) is not a Government organisation therefore the information requested on its creation and internal processes is not held centrally.</p><p>No funding has been allocated through the UK-RTC.</p><p>Members of the Consortium who have been awarded contracts have done so through compliant procurement processes unrelated to the UK-RTC.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10256 10257 10259 10261 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329311

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
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 criteria are for membership of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC) is not a Government organisation therefore the information requested on its creation and internal processes is not held centrally.</p><p>No funding has been allocated through the UK-RTC.</p><p>Members of the Consortium who have been awarded contracts have done so through compliant procurement processes unrelated to the UK-RTC.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10256 10257 10258 10261 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329312

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
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 entered into any contracts for the provision of rapid covid-19 tests with organisations that are not members of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department has entered into contracts with Innova for the provision of self-test lateral flow devices (LFDs) and Innova, Abbott and Orient Gene, through their distributor Tanner Pharma, for the provision of assisted LFDs.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 14/06/2021 16:04:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329313

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	UK Rapid Test Consortium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium's tendering process for contracts for rapid covid-19 tests is equitable and competitive.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK Rapid Test Consortium (UK-RTC) is not a Government organisation therefore the information requested on its creation and internal processes is not held centrally.</p><p>No funding has been allocated through the UK-RTC.</p><p>Members of the Consortium who have been awarded contracts have done so through compliant procurement processes unrelated to the UK-RTC.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10256 10257 10258 10259 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329314

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	Abingdon Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which companies and organisations competed for the contract that was awarded in October 2020 to Abingdon Health to provide 1 million rapid covid-19 tests; and which criteria Abingdon Health fulfilled in order to be awarded that contract.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>No contract was awarded to Abingdon Health Limited in October 2020.</p><p>The Department continues to use the appropriate procurement procedures within the Public Contract Regulations to award contracts to suppliers. All suppliers pass through a rigorous regulatory and validation process to ensure that they meet the same high quality standards.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10263 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:02:03 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329315

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	Abingdon Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his cancellation of outstanding orders for rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) tests with Abingdon Health in January 2021, what steps he has taken to improve his Department’s commissioning process.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>No contract was awarded to Abingdon Health Limited in October 2020.</p><p>The Department continues to use the appropriate procurement procedures within the Public Contract Regulations to award contracts to suppliers. All suppliers pass through a rigorous regulatory and validation process to ensure that they meet the same high quality standards.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10262 question first answered 14/06/2021 16:02:03 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329316

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	SureScreen Diagnostics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason Surescreen Diagnostics has been awarded a contract for 24 months until January 2023 for the manufacture of lateral flow antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 in the context of the potential removal of legal limits on social contact on 21 June 2021 as set out in the Government's roadmap out of lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>This contract was awarded in January 2021, before the current lockdown easing measures were announced. The contract is flexible and does not contain committed volumes of purchasing of tests. We are able to alter the amount of tests bought through this contract on a monthly basis and have the necessary contract clauses to exit the contract at short notice if required.</p><p>The contract was awarded under Regulation 32 measures in procurement procedures, based on the urgent nature of the requirement for lateral flow antigen tests and the lack of sovereign capability to produce these products in the United Kingdom. Worldwide manufacturers with tests validated for use in the UK were invited to make manufacturing proposals, including licencing production and were evaluated on the basis of a range of criteria including cost, performance and location/ability to provide security of supply.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10265 question first answered 14/06/2021 15:57:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1329317

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
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	SureScreen Diagnostics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how Surescreen Diagnostics was awarded a contract for 24 months until January 2023 for the manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2; where and how that contract was advertised; and what criteria were used to select that company.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>This contract was awarded in January 2021, before the current lockdown easing measures were announced. The contract is flexible and does not contain committed volumes of purchasing of tests. We are able to alter the amount of tests bought through this contract on a monthly basis and have the necessary contract clauses to exit the contract at short notice if required.</p><p>The contract was awarded under Regulation 32 measures in procurement procedures, based on the urgent nature of the requirement for lateral flow antigen tests and the lack of sovereign capability to produce these products in the United Kingdom. Worldwide manufacturers with tests validated for use in the UK were invited to make manufacturing proposals, including licencing production and were evaluated on the basis of a range of criteria including cost, performance and location/ability to provide security of supply.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 10264 question first answered 14/06/2021 15:57:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies