Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish data on the number of covid-19 (a) tests delivered and (b) patients referred to each genomic laboratory hub in the 12 months for which that data is available.
From 14 November 2020 to 14 November 2021 a total of 306,675,071 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and lateral flow device tests for COVID-19 were conducted. The number of patients whose PCR tests were referred to each individual genomic laboratory hub is not held centrally.