Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to ensure adequate supply of (a) PCR and (b) LFT covid-19 testing kit supplies to care homes.

The UK Health Security Agency continues to work with commercial partners to procure sufficient test kits and ensure a continuous supply to care homes. Care homes can order rapid lateral flow device (LFD) tests for regular asymptomatic testing, symptomatic testing of staff and residents and LFD and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing in the case of outbreaks. A courier booking service remains available to all care homes for completed PCR test kits in during outbreaks.