Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for mass testing for covid-19.

On 4 April 2020, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care advised that the Government will be adopting a testing strategy based on five pillars.

This new national effort for testing will ensure everyone who needs testing will get it.

Testing has already reached the Government’s ambition of 10,000 tests per day by the end of March as committed and have set a new challenge of 100,000 tests per day, by the end of April using this new tiered approach.

More information can be found at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878121/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-strategy.pdf