{"value":{"id":1187362,"askingMemberId":4130,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-03-23T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-04-06T00:00:00","uin":"HL2824","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to introduce universal testing of all UK citizens for COVID-19.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4708,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-04-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Testing is a crucial part of the United Kingdom’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Government is working on multiple fronts to deliver additional testing capacity.</p><p> </p><p>On 4 April 2020, the Government published its testing strategy <em>Coronavirus (COVID-19) Scaling up our testing programmes</em>. That strategy describes in detail the five pillars of work which together will put in place the testing that is mission critical as we fight the battle against COVID-19. A copy of the strategy is attached.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Coronavirus: Screening","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/1187362/original/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-strategy.pdf","title":"COVID19 Scaling up our testing programmes","fileType":"pdf","fileSizeBytes":409917}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1187362","method":"GET"}]}