Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in addition to the covid-19 tests performed at test centres, how many covid-19 tests performed at home were sent to testing centres each day from 27 April 2020 to 5 May 2020.

We introduced large-scale home testing at the end of April to make testing more accessible to individuals. Between 27 April – 5 May over 95,000 home tests were dispatched to users. In that same time period, nearly 21,000 test samples were processed by our labs. The difference in these numbers is due to the number of days between test dispatch, through to the sample being taken and then being collected by courier to be sent to the lab. This means that the 21,000 test samples processed will not correlate to tests dispatched on these dates.