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The natural history of that is that the ONS had the methodology, but we required 25,000 house visits a week to do the testing. That was provided by a clinical research organisation that had had to lay off its staff because we were not doing clinical trials.
Such is my concern about the issue that I raise it with UK Government ministers, whoever they are, whenever I meet them. Whenever we end up on a visit together or whatever, I raise the issue.
When universal credit was being rolled out, I visited a number of third sector and local authority projects that put in place a lot of intensive support because, as you know, people had to use online tools to register, search and so on.
I have repeatedly told the committee that I am happy to come back as often as you want me to—with five visits, I think that I qualify for a frequent flyer pass—and I would also hope that UK Government ministers would be happy to give evidence, as I have done to House of Lords committees in great detail and at great length.
I suggest that we also include prisons in the scope of our inquiry. I visited Barlinnie relatively recently and experienced the mental health crisis in the midst of our prison system.
It is estimated that more than 90 per cent of it has visited Israel. The purpose of the proposed cross-party group is to build bridges with Israel, not to be a cheerleader for the state of Israel.