Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the financial impact on people who are clinically vulnerable of needing to pay for covid-19 lateral flow tests from 1 April 2022.

From 1 April 2022, free access to asymptomatic and symptomatic 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 available in due course. We will review the impact of these policies on people who are at risk of serious illness.