Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to increase the UK’s COVID-19 testing capability; and whether the UK is on target to meet 100,000 tests a day.
The Government announced it had achieved its target to deliver 100,000 tests per day on 1 May 2020, with over 122,000 tests delivered on 30 April 2020.
The Government is rapidly scaling up the national effort to boost testing capacity for COVID-19 to protect the vulnerable, support the National Health Service, and ultimately save lives. Further details of this work can be found in the Government’s Testing Strategy titled ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes’, published on 4 April.