Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) machines and (b) tests have been purchased through the Government's contract with Optigene to date; and how many tests have been carried out using those machines.
A total of 600 machines and 39 million tests have been purchased through the contract with Optigene. As of 26 March 2021, 276,941 tests have been carried out using these machines.