Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take steps to identify vulnerable groups who will continue to be entitled to free covid-19 lateral flow tests after 1 April 2022; and whether those groups will include (a) people who are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed and (b) chronic kidney disease patients.

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.