{"value":{"id":1237138,"askingMemberId":4773,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-09-23T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-09-25T00:00:00","uin":"94560","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the reliability of the polymerise chain reaction test for covid-19.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4527,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The current sensitivity of our polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 such as those used at our lighthouse laboratories is over 99%. All manufacturers of PCR tests for COVID-19 must meet the requirements of our validation process to ensure the accuracy of their tests.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Coronavirus: Screening","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1237138","method":"GET"}]}