Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will run a public consultation on reinstating the workplace covid-19 testing programme for businesses that have employees who cannot work from home but are not classed as critical workers.

We have no plans to do so. The offer of tests directly to most workplaces ended in England in July 2021. Employers are now encouraged to direct employees to order home tests from GOV.UK, collect from local pharmacies or order via 119. The introduction of these direct testing channels means that workplace testing is no longer required.