Armed Forces: Coronavirus

(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of regularly testing members of the Armed Forces for covid-19 to support them returning to their families between deployments.


Answered by
James Heappey Portrait
James Heappey
This question was answered on 25th January 2021

We take the wellbeing of our personnel and their families extremely seriously, and have put in place enhanced COVID-19 secure measures in our establishments to limit the risk of COVID-19 transmission. In addition, we are looking at what further testing could be implemented following the UK Government's recent announcement to roll out asymptomatic testing for key workers and those unable to work from home.

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