United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL10393
Coronavirus: Screening
Introduced
16 November 2020
Last action
30 November 2020 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
30 November 2020
Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have considered if any data collected from COVID-19 testing could be used to create (1) a UK DNA biobank, or (2) be used by Genomics England for any purpose.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
16 November 2020
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have considered if any data collected from COVID-19 testing could be used to create (1) a UK DNA biobank, or (2) be used by Genomics England for any purpose.
Source: Lords
30 November 2020
Answer
We are not planning to create a new UK DNA biobank specifically for Covid-19 purposes. However, Covid-19 testing data is made available to researchers to support the Covid-19 response. Regarding whether data collected from Covid-19 testing could be used b...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-16/HL10393
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1252079
- uk · wq-1252079 · source updated 30 November 2020