Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate has he made of his Department's average daily capacity to provide covid-19 home testing kits; and what steps is he taking to increase that provision.

A national COVID-19 home testing service is available so that those who are unable to leave home are able to access testing. Eligible people who have completed a self-referral may have the option, depending on available capacity, to book a home-test kit. Home-test capacity is increasing rapidly.

We have sent more than two million testing kits out to people requesting them, with the number of tests returned and the time it takes to process them published for England in our weekly Test and Trace statistics.