Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish weekly updates on the implementation of the programme of weekly covid-19 testing for care home workers with data on (a) the number of care homes included in that programme, (b) the number of tests completed where an analytical report of the test result is made to the care home provider and (c) the average time in hours taken to return test results to the care home provider.

The Department has no plans to publish data in the format requested.