Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on public health of discontinuing free covid-19 tests.
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022
From 1 April 2022, free universal access to symptomatic and asymptomatic testing for the general public in England will end. We will continue to make free testing available for a small number of at risk groups. Further details of eligible groups will be made available in due course.