Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to allow people without covid-19 symptoms to get a rapid covid-19 lateral flow test in the run up to Christmas 2020.
Asymptomatic testing is provided only in specific circumstances and on the recommendation of public health experts, for instance, in areas of high prevalence or high risk or where there is a local outbreak. People without symptoms should not order tests except where instructed to do so through being enrolled in a pilot scheme or at the direct request of their local public health team or director of public health.