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 increase the availability of NHS lateral flow tests in response to Government advice for fully vaccinated contacts of a covid-19 case to take a daily lateral flow test for 7 days to slow the spread of the virus.

There is no shortage of lateral flow tests available. We are expanding our delivery capacity and lateral flow tests can also be collected at local pharmacies and some community sites, schools and colleges. We also have more than a thousand test sites in operation in the United Kingdom, including local and regional test sites and mobile testing units.