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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 32075, tabled on 19 March 2020

Question

Meg Hillier
Labour
Hackney South and Shoreditch
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many public health laboratories have closed in England and Wales from 2010 to 2020.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

24 March 2020

Since 2010 the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Public Health England (PHE) have withdrawn from the direct management of four regional laboratories. In each instance HPA and PHE then commissioned arrangements with the National Health Service laboratories in these regions to support the required public health functions.

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