Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the daily figures for the numbers of people tested for the COVID-19 include the 100,000 people who are being tested by post in a random survey led by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and carried out by Ipsos MORI.

The number of tests undertaken through the survey led by Ipsos Mori and Imperial College London is reported in the daily testing figures under Pillar 4. These tests do not contribute to the number of people tested, as through these studies people are often tested repeatedly in order to better understand how the virus is changing in the population over time.