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 test staff employed at designated covid-19 testing stations to ensure that they are not carrying the virus.

We have a number of measures in place to maintain health and safety at site. This includes strict social distancing measures, ensuring sites are cleaned multiple times a day to ensure very high standards of hygiene and the use of personal protective equipment on site. As testing capacity increases, repeat testing of priority groups is under consideration and a decision will be made in due course on whether to make this available for testing centre personnel.