Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many rapid lateral flow covid-19 tests have been issued in (a) England and (b) the South West in each of the last 12 months.

We are currently validating and collating the figures for lateral flow device tests issued in England, which will be published in due course. However, the data being collected does not identify the number of tests issued by region across all distribution channels.