Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the current average time taken for people at high risk from covid-19 to receive a PCR test result.

No estimate has been made as the information is not held in the format requested. However, during the week commencing 3 January 2022, 48.3% of in-person test results were received within 24 hours and 81.6% within 48 hours.