Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking in response to the NHS not accepting some covid-19 home testing kits because they have four letters on the test strip ID rather than three.

Tests with four letters on the ID strip are privately purchased lateral flow device (LFD) tests which cannot currently be registered on GOV.UK. Free LFD tests can be registered on GOV.UK and eligible individuals should continue to do so. The registration of the different types of COVID-19 tests is currently under review.