Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for rolling out mass covid-19 in Warrington; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out mass covid-19 testing to all parts of the UK.

As part of the Community Testing Programme, all local authority areas including Warrington Borough Council, at significant risk have been offered the opportunity to participate in order to make a co-ordinated effort to drive prevalence down of COVID-19 in their respective areas. Proposals are also carefully assessed at both a local and national level to ensure they are appropriate and safe and learning can be shared across the country. Community testing builds on the existing rollout of rapid lateral flow testing to all Directors of Public Health