Extracts from Opposition Day debate on Local Contact Tracing - Oct 14
Thursday, 15 October 2020 08:01
Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab):...The results service is shockingly
poor: according to the Government’s own figures, just 2% of people
got their results within 24 hours last week. Just 2%—how on earth
could someone intend to keep a contract with a company that was
failing so badly? Why is it that this company cannot do what
hundreds of other private sector companies in the country do, which
is allow people to track their result? People can track their
Amazon delivery—I have never had one...Request free trial
(Rhondda) (Lab):...The results service is shockingly
poor: according to the Government’s own figures, just 2% of people
got their results within 24 hours last week. Just 2%—how on earth
could someone intend to keep a contract with a company that was
failing so badly? Why is it that this company cannot do what
hundreds of other private sector companies in the country do, which
is allow people to track their result? People can track their
Amazon delivery—I have never had one because
Amazon does not pay its taxes properly—by can
logging on and finding out exactly when it is going to arrive. Why
can this company not do the same? It would save hours and hours of
time—not least in constituency MPs’ offices, I suspect—if there was
a proper system for that...
...May I make a simple suggestion? It would be really helpful
to the vast majority of people who are waiting for tests if there
was a simple means of them being able to track where their test had
got to, just as happens with Amazon and many thousands of other
companies in this country. It would also save vast amounts of time
for the company...
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