Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2020 to Question 46544, how many care home staff have been tested for covid-19 to date.

As of 8 July 2020, there had been an estimated 741,021 tests on workers in the United Kingdom in social care settings and their symptomatic household members for COVID-19 through Departmental testing routes. There have been an estimated 352,946 tests on care home residents for COVID-19 through Departmental testing routes in the UK.

An estimated 100,900 care home residents in England had been tested for COVID-19 through Public Health England testing routes.