Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2020 to Question 51868 on Coronavirus: Screening, what the cost to the public purse is of contracts awarded to commercial organisations to carry out covid-19 testing.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th November 2020

The Government has established a multitude of partnerships with industry, academia, local government and others to deliver its testing programme and many of the contracts span multiple activities.

It would be unfeasible to detail each individually and many are subject to confidential commercial agreements that would preclude the department from disclosing them publicly.

The Department plans to make all contracts it enters into available on GOV.UK via the contractor finder service in due course.

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