Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure covid-19 test facilities are accessible locally in Lambeth and Southwark.

The Government has put in place the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history, including 74 drive-through sites, 61 walk-through sites, 21 satellite test sites, 236 mobile testing units, home testing and satellite kits and five Lighthouse laboratories

In respect of tests being accessible locally in Southwark and Lambeth, a Regional Test site operates in the neighbouring Greenwich and Mobile Testing Units move around the neighbouring areas frequently, such as Southwark, Bromley, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. A Local Test site will be live from 11 September in Southwark and there are already sites set up in Newham, Lewisham. Further sites are planned to be set up in September at Tower Hamlets and Greenwich.