Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make PCR covid-19 testing kits more (a) affordable and (b) widely available for the purpose of international travel.

Since requirements were introduced for international travel testing, the costs have fallen significantly. We are committed to working with the travel industry and private testing providers to reduce the cost of testing. NHS Test and Trace tests are available at the market mid-point.

To increase the availability of polymerase chain reaction testing we have published a list of over 250 private test providers based on cost, turnaround times and geographic location on GOV.UK.