Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the residents and staff of every care home in England to receive regular testing for COVID-19.

We have met our 7 September target - we have provided testing kits to all care homes for older people and people with dementia who have registered for regular retesting kits. We are also contacting the small number of remaining care homes who have not registered to encourage them to do so.

All other adult care homes have been able to place orders for test kits from 31 August. Over 2,000 specialist homes have registered for retesting.

We have the capacity to send out over 100,000 test kits to care homes each day across the country, prioritising high priority outbreak areas and areas of concern.