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Coronavirus: Disease Control

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL4420, tabled on 13 May 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government to what extent they will be relying on machine learning and data held by large commercial organisations to prioritise people for testing or to determine limitations of movement in the next phase of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Answered on

17 June 2020

The Government continues to be guided by the best scientific and clinical advice to aid decision-making but is not using automatic intelligence or machine learning algorithms to prioritise the allocation of testing for COVID-19.