Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to continue to screen all NHS staff and patients for covid-19 beyond 1 April 2022.

The Government will continue to provide free symptomatic testing for individuals who live or work in high-risk closed settings, such as in some National Health Service, social care and detention settings to minimise outbreaks. We will continue to provide free symptomatic testing for patients in hospital, where a test is required for clinical management or to support treatment pathways. NHS England will contact those who are eligible.