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Disclosure of Detailed Grounds for Resistance
Disclosure of Detailed Grounds for Resistance.
About this update from Abingdon Health Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 0134I\n Abingdon Health PLC\n 09 August 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Abingdon Health plc\n \n \n (\"Abingdon Health\" or \"the Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n Disclosure of Detailed Grounds for Resistance\n \n \n Clarification regarding factual inaccuracies in relation to the judicial review proceedings\n \n \n \n \n \n \n York, U.K. 9 August 2021: \n \n \n Abingdon Health plc (AIM: ABDX), \n a leading international developer and manufacturer of high quality and effective rapid tests, notes recent media commentary on \n the application by Good Law Project Limited (\"GLP\") for judicial review, due to be heard in December 2021, of the decision by the Department of Health and Social Care (\"DHSC\") to award contracts to Abingdon for the development of lateral flow test kits to detect COVID-19 antibodies.\n \n \n \n \n \n Abingdon Health is a lateral flow diagnostics company providing contract service solutions across the healthcare sector. Founded in 2008, Abingdon Health has established itself as a leading expert in lateral flow test development and commercial manufacture. The senior management team have over 150 years' combined experience in the lateral flow testing market and the Company employs over 130 people across facilities in York and Doncaster.\n \n \n \n \n \n Abingdon Health fully supports both openness and accountability relating to the award of public contracts and in the interests of factual accuracy and transparency provides the following statements:\n \n \n \n \n \n ·\n The GLP have asserted that the Government admitted in sworn evidence that some of Health Minister Lord Bethell's dealing with Abingdon Health had been conducted using his private mobile phone, potentially using WhatsApp and text messages that are no longer available for scrutiny following the replacement of the phone. This assertion is not correct, and the Company can confirm that no member of the senior management has sent or received texts or WhatsApp messages with Lord Bethell or any other Government ministers. The mobile phones of the senior management team at Abingdon Health have not been replaced or lost and the senior management team are happy to confirm in sworn evidence that no such text or WhatsApp messages were sent or received.\n \n \n \n \n \n · \...