Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assess the effect of new research into the range and frequency of covid-19 symptoms on the adequacy of his guidance on the main symptoms of covid-19 which are used to recommend that individuals book a test for the virus; and how often that assessment takes place.

We will continue to review the evidence available to us through the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, the Office for National Statistics and other sources and we continue to be guided by the science on our approach.