Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in relation to unregulated or unverified COVID-19 antibody tests being used in the UK; and what steps they are taking to ensure that polymerase chain reaction tests for COVID-19 being offered by private companies are being conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines.

To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing – note for House of Lords which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library