Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 2nd March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on covid-19 tests for staff in 2020-21.
This question was answered on 12th April 2022
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has delivered and funded COVID-19 testing for National Health Service staff in England. In 2020/21, the UKHSA’s expenditure on testing for staff was £884 million. This includes the procurement, distribution and resourcing costs of lateral flow device and LAMP testing but excludes the costs of polymerase chain reaction testing.