Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 2nd December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional support the Government will provide to local authorities in Tier 3 to allow for the (a) establishment and (b) staffing of extra covid-19 testing sites.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 21st January 2021

We are supporting local authorities in England to deliver a six-week community testing programme, to help reduce the spread of the virus and to ease the toughest restrictions more quickly.

We published ‘Community Testing: a guide for local delivery’, which sets out the extensive package of support available, including details of £14-per-test funding for those taking part. This funding per test has been calculated to cover all reasonable costs associated with implementing and operating a testing programme. The community testing guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-testing-explainer/community-testing-a-guide-for-local-delivery

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