{"value":{"id":1237656,"askingMemberId":4797,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-09-24T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-09-29T00:00:00","uin":"95240","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people who receive a positive result to a PCR test under (a) Pillar 1 and (b) Pillar 2 of the Government’s covid-19 testing programme who are infectious with covid-19 at the time the tests are taken.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4527,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-10-12T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Data on the number of PCR tests conducted and positive and negative results by pillars 1 and 2 are available at the following link:</p><p><a href=\"https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing\" target=\"_blank\">https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing</a></p><p>We have made no assessment of the proportion of people who test positive who may be infectious at the time they are tested.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":"2020-09-29T00:00:00","attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Coronavirus: Screening","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1237656","method":"GET"}]}