Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) public bodies and (b) companies are carrying out covid-19 tests on behalf of the Government; and what the (a) sensitivity, (b) specificity and (c) cost is of those tests so delivered by those public bodies or companies.

Pillar 2 uses Lighthouse Laboratories and has partnership arrangements with public, private and academic sector laboratories. The Department cannot comment on individual contracts due to commercial sensitivity but public notices of the contracts have been published at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder