United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 97050
Coronavirus: Screening
Introduced
29 September 2020
Last action
4 November 2020 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
4 November 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of positive covid-19 test results are (a) false positive and (b) false negative.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
29 September 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of positive covid-19 test results are (a) false positive and (b) false negative.
Source: Commons
4 November 2020
Answer
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 (RT-PCR) testing programme, which i...
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 of Health and Social Care · 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/2020-09-29/97050
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1238932
- uk · wq-1238932 · source updated 4 November 2020