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A Yorkshire MP has joined a chorus of politicians expressing their frustration over the confusion in local coronavirus testing data reaching leaders on the ground.

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Labour MP Yvette Cooper said health authorities in her West Yorkshire constituency had been trying to get hold of what is known as pillar two testing data - the data on coronavirus tests processed by private labs - but had not been able to.

The issue is long running with local leaders insisting that even though they may have received some of this data, it had not been on a granular enough level, for example including postcodes, to sufficiently plan for any local lockdowns or identify trends.

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