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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 19 Nov 2020
DHSC Answers to Written Questions

"I thank the excellent Minister for his response, but may I suggest that the covid situation is allowing the Government to dodge issues they do not want to answer? On the Floor of the House, I asked the Secretary of State how many tests with false positives and false negatives …..."
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Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Wednesday 18th November 2020

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of covid-19 tests that are false negative.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

In June 2020 the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies published a briefing paper on the impact of false positives and false negatives in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing programme, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gos-impact-of-false-positives-and-negatives-3-june-2020

The briefing paper states that the UK operational false positive rate is unknown.

Written Question
Coronavirus: Screening
Wednesday 18th November 2020

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of covid-19 test results that are false positive.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

In June 2020 the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies published a briefing paper on the impact of false positives and false negatives in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing programme, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gos-impact-of-false-positives-and-negatives-3-june-2020

The briefing paper states that the UK operational false positive rate is unknown.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I thank the Secretary of State for yet again coming to the House to update us on the situation. I should think the whole House would like to congratulate him on being on target for 500,000 tests a day—that is quite remarkable. Some scientists say that 1% of those tests …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the House yet again to update the House on covid matters and health matters. He is right, of course, to concentrate on covid, but we also have to worry about people who do not have covid diseases and need treatment. In …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Oct 2020
Covid-19 Update and Hospitality Curfew

"My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has heard from across the House great concerns about the 10 pm curfew. Given the statements yesterday from yourself, Mr Speaker, and from my right hon. Friend about more parliamentary scrutiny, does he agree that, if the 10 pm curfew had not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 16 Jul 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I congratulate the Secretary of State on coming to the House first to update us on the situation in Leicester. This week, a report from the Centre for Social Justice stated that we have 100,000 modern-day slaves in this country. It appears that many of those are in Leicester and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2020
Coronavirus Update

"Why was the new policy on face coverings announced in the media last night, rather than to Parliament first?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 Jul 2020
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review

"The three scandals we have heard about are terrible, but can I ask the excellent Minister about the future? I piloted through Parliament the Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Act 2020, which should allow us to get more data on problems that arise in the NHS. What further …..."
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Written Question
Body Bags
Friday 12th June 2020

Asked by: Peter Bone (Independent - Wellingborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of body bags available for use by (a) the NHS and (b) funeral directors.

Answered by Jo Churchill

The Government published ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19): personal protective equipment (PPE) plan’ on 10 April. It incorporates guidance on who needs PPE and when they need it, routes to ensure those who need it can get it at the right time and sets out actions to secure enough PPE to last through the crisis. PPE includes aprons, eye protectors, face masks, gloves, gowns, hand hygiene, clinical waste bags and body bags.

In addition to making PPE available to National Health Service trusts, primary care and adult social care, we are also delivering PPE to all Local Resilience Forums (LRFs). These multi-agency LRF partnerships are made up of representatives from local public services, including the emergency services, local authorities, the NHS, the Environment Agency and others. This enables LRFs to respond to urgent local spikes in need across the adult social care system and other front-line services, including mortuary and funeral services where providers are unable to access PPE through their usual routes.