Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Covid-19 testing kits (a) donated and (b) sold by the Government of the People's Republic of China to the UK have been found to be faulty in the last three months.

Firstly, we thank the Chinese government and her companies for all the offers to support our COVID-19 response. On swab tests, we have had two offers of donations, both of which were for kits that had the required CE mark. For all donations of test kits with the appropriate regulatory approval we seek to match the donation to an organisation (typically a National Health Service trust) that has a local need rather than to accept the donation nationally.

On lateral flow antibody tests, we have evaluated 14 of the most promising antibody tests from around the world and none of these tests met the requirements set out in the published Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency specification. The tests are not faulty, but not designed for the current phase of the national testing programme in the United Kingdom.