Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of continuing the provision of free covid-19 testing beyond 1 April 2022 in the context of the recent rise in covid-19 hospitalisations.

We will continue to make free testing available for a small number of at-risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be available in due course. We are monitoring case rates and hospitalisations and will keep these policies under review.