Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that a walk-in covid-19 testing centre is located in York, before the university term commences, in order to respond to the expected demand for testing from students.

We have quickly established walk-through sites and deployed mobile test sites so that almost all universities are within 1.5 miles of an in-person test site allowing staff and students to access tests should they develop symptoms. There is a local testing centre at Wentworth Way Carpark at the University of York and a regional testing centre at Poppleton Bar Park and Ride.

It is important that university staff and students only get a test if they develop COVID-19 symptoms.