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1256441

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date	30/11/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they, or their agencies, regularly determine the operational false positive rates for polymerase chain reaction tests carried out at each laboratory undertaking analysis for mass COVID-19 testing; whether they use an ‘end to end’ method to audit those rates; if not, what methodology they use to make such determinations; and whether those methods include inserting samples into the system that cannot be positive.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL10846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>Currently samples are not placed into the system to test operational sensitivity. The Department has undertaken substantial work with Porton Down and the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Laboratory to conduct temperature and long-term stability experiments on sample collection kits to ensure swabs meet an appropriate standard for testing.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 15/03/2021 16:53:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

1256442

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the operational false positive rate for polymerase chain reaction COVID-19 tests is regularly determined by inserting samples into the system that cannot be positive; and what is the false positive rate for such samples.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL10847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/12/2020 14:29:00 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee

1256443

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the operational false positive rate for polymerase chain reaction COVID-19 tests in each of the last four weeks; and how this rate was determined.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL10848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/12/2020 14:29:53 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee