Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of lateral flow tests required daily, (b) the number of lateral flow tests the Government has available and (c) the cost of each lateral flow test.

No specific estimate of the number of lateral flow device (LFD) tests required each day as demand varies significantly. We expect to distribute 90 million tests in the United Kingdom each week. We expect 400 million tests to be made available by the UK Health Security Agency in January. We are unable to provide the cost per test of each LFD test as this information is commercially sensitive.