Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients with respiratory conditions are prioritised for covid-19 testing.

Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19 can get a test. The majority of people who take a test in person will receive their result the next day. The country has moved back to a tiered system of local restrictions. We have reinstated this guidance for clinically extremely vulnerable people linked to these tiers.

This information can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19/