Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 laboratory tests, excluding antibody tests, in England were completed in each calendar month of 2020, up to and including August.

The Government does not publish data in the format requested. The Government publishes information, from 20 March onwards, on daily tests processed and daily testing capacity at GOV.UK. We provide data on daily testing capacity by swab tests, using polymerase chain reaction assay, within pillars 1, 2, and 4 to show if someone has COVID-19; and antibody testing of a blood sample within pillar 3 and pillar 4 to show if people have antibodies from having had COVID-19.