An abbreviated miscellany of 20 facts, factual and fact-like assertions from our parliamentarians this last week:

• Bracknell is the Silicon Valley of the Thames Valley. James Sunderland (Con, Bracknell).
• 17.5 million adults have not had an eye test in the last two years, as recommended.  Marsha de Cordova
• Over the last 48 hours, wind has generated as little as 1% of our electricity. John Redwood.
• We support new nuclear. Ed Miliband.
• In addition to the laws of the land, MPs are subject to 12 different sets of rules. Chris Bryant.
• Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in Europe.  Liz Saville Roberts.
• Since 2009-10, the UK Government’s day-to-day spending on public services has decreased significantly in real terms, with the UK Ministry of Justice falling by 40%, and the Home Office’s by about 25%. Jim Shannon.
• A Government report in July 2020 found that more than 200,000 lives could be lost due to lockdown.  Esther McVey.
• The National Audit Office estimated that the bulk of the £37.5 billion spent on Test and Trace was wasted. Graham Stringer.
• 25 million surgical gowns supplied by Medpro which cost the taxpayer £122 million were rejected by the Department of Health because they were completely unusable. Abena Oppong-Asare.

• In the most deprived parts of my constituency life expectancy is 12 years lower than the national average. Scott Benton.
• Discarded disposable vapes mean that 10 tonnes of lithium are sent to landfill every year – a level equivalent to the lithium batteries inside 1,200 electric vehicles. Kirsten Oswald
• Saudi Arabia has executed 20 people for drugs-related offences in just two weeks. We believe there are 55 other people currently at risk of the death penalty. David Davis
• Legal content that a platform prohibits in its own terms of service should be removed – Online Safety Bill. Michelle Donelan.
• The rate of Mental Health Detentions of Black people in England is four times higher than of White people. Care Quality Commission Monitoring the Mental Health Act
• Banks are still refusing to handle accounts of family members [of parliamentarians] and other colleagues of mine are finding their accounts are being closed. Diane Hayter of Kentish Town.
• Each year, £300 billion is spent on public procurement. Lucy Neville-Rolfe.
• We still have a further 120 million items of PPE that are still in China, and which is costing taxpayers some £770,000 every day to keep them. David Alton of Liverpool.
• School funding is £4 billion higher this year than last year. Gillian Keegan.
• Some 90% of babies with Down’s syndrome are aborted. Fiona Bruce.

And a bonus Bryant:

Since the last general election, 177 Conservative MPs have been Ministers.