Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to introduce covid-19 testing (a) for people admitted to hospital who are immunocompromised and (b) in other high-risk settings.

As set out in the Living with COVID-19 strategy published last February, we are continuing to offer some COVID-19 testing for those in high-risk settings. Currently, symptomatic or immunocompromised patients who are admitted to hospital for maternity or emergency care receive a Polymerase Chain Reaction test. Residents, patients, or staff in high-risk settings who are symptomatic are also tested and testing can be used to manage an outbreak in these settings.