PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Screening (8 March 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will take steps to ensure that childminders have access to covid-19 home testing kits.
Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)
Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)
Answer
As part of the expansion of asymptomatic testing, childminders can order self-test kits to their home through the online ordering service and can collect self-test kits from NHS Test and Trace test sites around the country, as well as from community collection sites where these are being established by local authorities. Individuals can check if asymptomatic testing is offered in their local area at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/find-covid-19-lateral-flow-test-site
Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
16 March 2021
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