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answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>Deaths are monitored on the Abortion Notification (HSA4) form and will be recorded and included in official abortion statistics.</p><p>Any complication known to the practitioner terminating the pregnancy should be reported to the Chief Medical Officer on the Abortion Notification (HSA4) form. All serious incidents should be reported by the provider to their commissioner, the Care Quality Commission and other relevant organisations in line with the serious incident framework published by NHS England and NHS Improvement at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/serious-incident-framework/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/serious-incident-framework/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/09/2020 13:59:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

1190009

registered interest
date	24/04/2020
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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
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 ensure that care home workers and NHS staff are regularly tested for covid-19 even when those people are not displaying symptoms.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	39494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>We have made testing available to all symptomatic National Health Service staff and social care staff as a priority. We are also testing those in these groups who are asymptomatic in specific circumstances where appropriate.</p><p>For NHS workers specifically, NHS England has recently published guidance on when testing of this nature might be appropriate, including where an incident has taken place, an outbreak or where high prevalence has been established. We are now introducing twice weekly testing.</p><p>For care home workers, all adult care homes are able to access testing kits, for weekly testing of staff through the care home testing portal. We have the capacity to send out over 120,000 test kits a day to care homes.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2020 13:59:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 17789 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1190571

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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: Disease Control
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 scientific and medical advice that he received up to 1 April 2020 on the merits of antigen and antibody testing for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	40462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>COVID-19 testing is core to the Government’s response to the virus, helping to provide care to those who need it, protect the most vulnerable and find new cases to help break the chains of transmission.</p><p>The Government continues to be guided by the latest expertise in this area and receives a range of scientific and medical advice, including from Public Health England (PHE) and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which have consistently advised on the importance of testing. SAGE meeting minutes are published on GOV.UK.</p><p>Assessments of the various antibody testing assays, including those now in use were performed by PHE, are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-laboratory-evaluations-of-serological-assays" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-laboratory-evaluations-of-serological-assays</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 09/11/2020 12:21:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1191163

registered interest
date	28/04/2020
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, with reference to the next steps set out on page 14 of his Department's policy paper of 4 April 2020, Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes, what progress has been made on implementing those next steps.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	41069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>Following the publication of the Department’s Testing Strategy, ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes’, there has been significant progress against the objectives set out as next steps, including achieving delivering 100,000 swab tests per day by the end of April.</p><p>The Department has ensured that the National Health Service uses its spare capacity to test its staff and has rolled out a commercial swab testing programme that is now testing hundreds of thousands of people a day.</p><p>We have now delivered over 2.3 million antibody tests to NHS staff and patients and continue to evaluate lateral flow style antibody tests for home use should that be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/11/2020 16:05:48 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1192186

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2020 to Question 34319 on Coronavirus: Screening, which suppliers the Government (a) is working with and (b) has entered into contracts with.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	41928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government has established partnerships with industry, academia, local government and others to deliver its testing programme - from companies supplying testing kits and supplies to logistics and processing partnerships.</p><p>The Department plans to make summaries of all contracts it enters into available on GOV.UK via the contractor finder service.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2020 18:07:34 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 19563 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1192672

registered interest
date	04/05/2020
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, if he will publish the number of people resident in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area that were tested under (i) Pillar 1, (ii) Pillar 2 In-person routes and (ii) Pillar 2 Delivery routes.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	43190
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.</p><p>We also publish public dashboards at a national, regional and local authority level and the MSOA (Middle Layer Super Output Area) map, allows users to type in a postcode to see how many cases there are in small areas of around 7,000 people.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/11/2020 16:53:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 20408 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1192884

registered interest
date	04/05/2020
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	Leasehold: Coronavirus
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 he has taken to ensure that residents in communal living leasehold arrangements are able to access testing for covid-19.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	43067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>Testing is available to all symptomatic people across the whole of the United Kingdom through a range of physical and digital testing channels. Anyone with any of the three main COVID-19 symptoms should self-isolate and access a test as soon as possible. This includes both essential workers and the wider public.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/10/2020 09:01:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1194179

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of testing and chemical supply to support 200,000 covid-19 tests a day.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	45225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Since NHS Test and Trace launched on 28 May, we have exceeded the 200,000 testing capacity target, with current capacity standing at 309,921 as of 12 October 2020.</p><p>Along with home-testing and satellite kits, we have established a large network of testing sites across the United Kingdom with 77 regional test sites, 172 local test services (walk through), 21 satellite testing centres and 258 mobile testing units. We will look to increase this in the coming months to meet our needs.</p><p>In addition to the five Lighthouse laboratories operating currently, we have announced the addition of new Lighthouse laboratories in Newport, Newcastle, Bracknell and Charnwood to the national laboratory network. We are also using additional ‘surge’ laboratory capacity to process more tests in the short-term. We are working to ensure that we continue to support scaling capacity, allowing more people to be tested daily.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/11/2020 13:47:58 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1194231

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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 assessment his Department has made of the scientific human resource requirements necessary to support a significant increase in covid-19 testing.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	45178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department has made assessments of the resource allocations across the testing programme needed to increase testing capacity and support the Government’s ambition that anyone who needs a test can get one. This has included discussing staff prioritisation across a range of organisations supporting the programme, recruiting staff and volunteers and seeking further support from the academic and life sciences sectors.</p><p>Anyone who is able to support the Government’s programme to increase testing capacity, including offers of laboratory capacity should submit their offers via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-the-government-increase-coronavirus-covid-19-testing-capacity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-the-government-increase-coronavirus-covid-19-testing-capacity</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/11/2020 16:00:13 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1194272

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
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 he plans to make covid-19 testing kits available to close relatives of extremely vulnerable people that are presenting symptoms.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	45159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>Testing is available to all symptomatic people across the whole of the United Kingdom. Anyone with any of the three main coronavirus symptoms should self-isolate and access a test as soon as possible, this includes those who are considered clinically extremely vulnerable.</p><p>Where a person is exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms but cannot order a test for themselves, there is the ability for a member of their family or community to order a test on their behalf. Should their condition worsen they should call 111, their own general practitioner or in the event of a medical emergency, 999.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2020 18:24:16 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous