Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people who need to access covid-19 lateral flow tests for the purposes of visiting care home residents will be given assistance in acquiring those tests.

The regular asymptomatic testing regime in adult social care after 1 April 2022 is currently under review and we will set out further details in due course. Until 1 April, testing for visitors to care homes should currently align with current guidance on testing in care homes.