Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions ministers in her Department have had with ministers in the Department for Health and Social Care on the two million covid-19 antibody tests ordered from AllTest Biotech and Wondfo Biotech (a) before and (b) after those tests were discovered to be insufficiently accurate by a University of Oxford laboratory; and if she will make a statement.

The Department for International Trade is working closely with the Department for Health and Social Care in relation to the UK’s response to Covid-19. It has been the practice of successive administrations that the Government does not disclose details of internal meetings.