Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether asymptomatic people who are at greater risk from covid-19, including immunocompromised, clinically vulnerable and clinically extremely vulnerable people, can access free lateral flow tests.
Asymptomatic lateral flow device testing will continue in some high-risk settings where infection can spread rapidly while prevalence is high. Free symptomatic testing will continue for patients in hospital, for whom a test is required for clinical management or to support treatment pathways and those eligible for COVID-19 treatments as they are at higher risk of serious illness. It is also available for individuals who live or work in high-risk closed settings, such as some National Health Service and social care settings and prison and other places of detention to minimise outbreaks.