Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when quick turn around covid-19 tests will be available in hospitals to allow patients for cancer treatment and women in labour to have their partner with them.

Rapid turnaround testing devices have been deployed across National Health Service acute trusts throughout the autumn period.

These devices with a quick turnaround time have been made available to emergency departments to support the management of non-elective patient pathways.