Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in (a) England and (b) Merseyside have been unable to order a covid-19 lateral flow test kit from the Government website on 13 December 2021; and what steps his Department is taking to resume the provision of covid-19 lateral flow test kits from that website.

The information requested is not held centrally.

There is no shortage of lateral flow tests and we have enough stock to meet increased demand. We are carefully balancing the demands placed on the delivery network to ensure that kits can be delivered to homes, collected from local pharmacies and some community sites.