Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the social care sector will receive details on the £149 million of funding for the delivery of covid-19 testing in care homes; and how and when that funding will be allocated.
The Department expects the care homes allocation to be passed to providers within 10 working days upon the receipt of the funding in a local authority, subject to providers meeting the conditions of the grant. The funding was released to local authorities on 15 January 2021.