Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November to Question 87567, whether his Department holds (a) information on the location of each laboratory engaged in processing tests for covid-19; and (b) data on how many tests were processed at each of those laboratories in each month since April 2020; and for what reason that information is not published.

Laboratories at the following locations are engaged in processing of tests for COVID-19:

- Glasgow;

- Manchester;

- Cambridge;

- Milton Keynes;

- Charnwood (Loughborough);

- Newport;

- Queen Mary London; and

- Randox (Northern Ireland).

Data is published on the number of tests conducted by lower tier local authority, rather than by specific laboratory.