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 merits of continuing to provide free covid-19 lateral flow testing for (a) clinically extremely vulnerable people, (b) their immediate relatives and (c) household members beyond April 2022.

Free access to asymptomatic and symptomatic tests for the public in England will end from 1 April 2022. We will continue to make testing available for a small number of at-risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be made available in due course. We will continue review the impact of our COVID-19 policies those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, their immediate relatives and household members.