Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase COVID-19 testing specifically for frontline NHS staff; and what is their assessment of the survey finding that 83.6 per cent of doctors surveyed had not been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

The Government’s overall ambition is to ensure that everyone who needs a test can get one. Increasing testing capacity is a top priority and we are working around the clock and across the country to protect the vulnerable, support the National Health Service and save lives.

NHS staff can be tested in the NHS workplace, or by using the online portal to book a test at a Regional Testing Site, or by ordering a home testing kit.

Reaching a daily testing capacity of 200,000 was an important milestone, but this is by no means the end of our ramping up of testing. We plan further increases through the summer and into the autumn through a combination of improvements to existing labs, new partnerships and bringing on board novel tests.