Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of home testing kits for covid-19 and tests conducted by healthcare professionals.

All home testing kits go through rigorous external scientific and clinical review process before being put into use.

An increasingly broad range of international peer reviewed evidence demonstrates that self-swabbing for COVID-19 is just as effective as clinician-administered swabbing.