Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide non-CQC regulated homecare workers with weekly covid-19 home test kits; and when his Department plans to vaccinate those people.

On 23 November 2020, we began offering Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered domiciliary organisations access to weekly COVID-19 testing for their carers looking after people in their own homes. We will extend this offer shortly to other homecare workers, including non-CQC registered organisations and personal assistants. All frontline social care workers, including those who are not CQC registered, will have been offered the first dose of the vaccine by mid-February.