Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children aged (a) under one, (b) one, (c) two, (d) three, (e) four and (f) five years have received a covid-19 test; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the sample size on significance in the data sets in identifying the prevalence of covid-19.

The information is not available in the format requested. Data showing demographic and regional information on the number of people tested is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-england-statistics-18-february-to-24-february-2021