Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 23rd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which vulnerable groups of people will be able to continue to receive free covid-19 lateral flow tests after 1 April 2022; and whether tests will be made available to people with symptoms of covid-19.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 28th March 2022

From 1 April 2022, free universal access to lateral flow device 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 made available in due course.

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