Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has completed an equality impact assessment on the potential risk to clinically vulnerable people of the end of free asymptomatic covid-19 lateral flow tests from 1 April.

From 1 April 2022, free access to asymptomatic and symptomatic tests for the public in England will end. We will continue to make testing available for a small number of at-risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be available in due course. Equalities impact assessments were completed to inform decisions on Living with COVID-19 and we will continue to consider the impacts on all groups.