Covid-19 Update Debate
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James Murray
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(3 years, 10 months ago)
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Matt Hancock
We are providing funding for local support, but I just want to reiterate to those who are in Leicester right now and listening to this debate, that the furlough scheme is in existence and it works now in the same way that it has worked across the country.
James Murray (Ealing North) (Lab/Co-op) [V]
Ealing Council, which covers my constituency, is one of those concerned about receiving all the data it needs as quickly as it needs it for local outbreak plans to work as well as possible. Will the Secretary of State guarantee that full testing data will be shared with every local authority, GP and director of public health, and commit to there being no time lag between these tests being carried out and the data being shared?
Matt Hancock
Yes, that data was made available last week to all councils, subject to a data protection agreement, which the vast majority have returned.