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Thursday, 19 November, 2020

Mrs Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire) (Con)

What assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the whole city covid-19 testing pilot in Liverpool. [908875]

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Matt Hancock)

The Liverpool pilot will help to inform a blueprint of how mass testing can be achieved and how rapid testing can be delivered at scale. We are now making mass testing available right across the country.

Mrs Wheeler 

I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply. May I ask him to agree to extend the pilot for rapid testing to the whole of Derbyshire and Derby to give the pilot real work to compare our semi-rural area with the urban area of Liverpool?

Matt Hancock

We are now issuing test kits to 84 directors of public health across the country. I am very happy to work with Derbyshire and Derby to make sure that my hon. Friend’s request is taken up and we can make this happen.

 

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