Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) universities took part in the testing of students before their return home for Christmas and (b) lateral flow tests were (i) provided and (ii) administered.
We do not publish data in the format requested. Every university in England was offered access to rapid asymptomatic testing. We worked with 152 universities in England to offer the majority of students COVID-19 tests before they returned home for the Christmas break.