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Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Thursday 28th April 2022

Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost of the purchase of covid-19 PCR test kits has been to date; and how many of those kits have been purchased.

Answered by Maggie Throup

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is unable to provide the information requested on the cost of purchasing of COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests as this information is commercially sensitive.

PCR test kits are comprised of several components which are individually purchased, prior to assembly. Between April 2020 and March 2022, the UKHSA purchased materials which were manufactured to make 154 million test kits.

Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Thursday 28th April 2022

Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has the total cost to the public purse of the Government PCR testing programme been to date; and how many PCR tests have been completed.

Answered by Maggie Throup

The UK Health Security Agency is unable to provide the information requested on the total cost of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing programme as it is commercially sensitive.

Between April 2020 and March 2022, 147 million PCR tests have been reported as ‘processed’ through laboratories.

Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Thursday 28th April 2022

Asked by: Alan Brown (Scottish National Party - Kilmarnock and Loudoun)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 lateral flow test kits have been purchased by his Department; and what was the total cost to the public purse of these kits.

Answered by Maggie Throup

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What recent discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on ending free-of-charge covid-19 lateral flow tests. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Scottish taxpayers paid their contribution towards the provision of free lateral flow tests. Scotland is allocated its share of UK debt, yet we are supposed to believe that covid support is somehow at the benevolence of the UK Government. Now we see the UK Government, again, making a decision that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report

"As well as compensation, which I think is what the right hon. Gentleman was talking about with “redress”, the Scottish Government, at least, are now progressing with a Bill to set money aside for people to get mesh removed through private surgery, fully funded by the Scottish Government. Does he …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Rosindell. I congratulate the right hon. Member for Elmet and Rothwell (Alec Shelbrooke) on securing the debate. Without being facetious, I think it is the first time in my seven years in this place that I have agreed completely with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report

"It is good to hear the Minister’s commitment to listening to women’s voices. Will she listen to these women and, in particular, her constituent Baroness Cumberlege about the need to provide redress for the women who have been harmed by these drugs?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report

"The point is that Baroness Cumberlege says the Government have an ethical duty to consider redress, so what does the Minister say to her constituents about that ethical duty that should be placed on the Government?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 03 Feb 2022
Cumberlege Report

"I thank the Minister for taking one more intervention. She talks about blame and not pitting patients against doctors or the NHS. Is that not the whole point of the redress agency that was recommended, to take away that adversarial approach?..."
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