Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average length of time is for the results of covid-19 tests taken in care homes to be passed from (a) Public Health England to the local authority and (b) the local authority to the care home.

The vast majority of people who have a test through the National Testing Programme get their result the next day. Public Health England receives a data feed of these results after they have been processed by the labs and uploaded to the National Pathology Exchange, which occurs every 30 minutes.