Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to expand the access to those eligible for coronavirus testing to include people shielding who are without symptoms.

Testing is a vital part of the United Kingdom’s response to COVID-19 and we have made testing available to all symptomatic people across the UK. We are only testing asymptomatic people under a range of specific circumstances, but this does not currently include those who are shielding.