Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who have recently been discharged from hospital and become symptomatic can access a covid-19 test.

Anyone experiencing symptoms can access a free test at a testing site or at home via the online booking portal or by calling 119. Our priority is to ensure that anyone with symptoms can get a test. During this period of very high demand in the context of constrained capacity and other demands on testing, we must necessarily apply a strict prioritisation approach, taking into account the latest publicly available evidence and clinical, scientific and economic rationale. For transparency the current priorities for testing have been published on GOV.UK.