Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential saving to the public purse of suspending the covid-19 testing programme; and how much his Department has spent on that programme in each month since 1 January 2021.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022

No assessment has been made. From 1 April 2022, free universal access to lateral flow device tests for the public in England will end. We will continue to make free testing available for a small number of at risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be made available in due course.

Data on actual expenditure for the testing programme will be published as part of the Department’s annual accounts at the end of the financial year.

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