Excess Deaths in Private Homes Debate
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Lord Hannan of Kingsclere
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Excess Deaths in Private Homes
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Lord Markham (Con)
I will happily provide the detail on that. We all know about the 62-day challenge. That has been the focus of Ministers ensuring that we are bearing down on that number, so that an increasing proportion are treated within that period.
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (Con)
My Lords, some of these numbers plainly reflect the diagnoses and the treatments that did not happen during the pandemic, as my noble friend the Minister has suggested. Given that we now know that the OECD country with the lowest excess death figure during those two years was Sweden, does my noble friend the Minister believe that, knowing what we now know, we would have locked down?
Lord Markham (Con)
My noble friend makes a challenging point. This will be a subject of the inquiry, on which I look forward to hearing more.