Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason people who were tested at a covid-19 test site that used LAMP tests and subsequently tested positive are not eligible for Test and Trace Support Payments but people who received a positive result from a PCR test are eligible for those payments.

LAMP testing has not been used widely for the general public. However, the UK Health Security Agency informed local authorities that applicants who test positive for COVID-19 via this route should receive the £500 support payment, provided they met the other eligibility criteria. The scheme closed on 24 February 2022.