Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 tests have been delivered by couriers; and how much has been paid to couriers for those deliveries, in each month since March 2020.

Home testing enables people to get tested without leaving their home. They are self-administered tests. They can be ordered via the self-referral portal. The order is fulfilled by Amazon and the user can drop their test kits into one of more than 35,000 priority post boxes in order to return them. For individuals who are shielding or unable to get to a priority post box the programme offers for the sample to be collected by Royal Mail couriers. We are unable to share commercially sensitive arrangements regarding the individual costs paid to couriers.