PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Screening (14 April 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the funding required for NHS England to continue free regular asymptomatic covid-19 testing of NHS staff.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

The cost of any resilience measures required are managed in agreement with relevant Government departments, including HM Treasury. In order to ensure that the ongoing cost of resilience and contingency measures, such as the continuation of free symptomatic testing in high risk settings, are met sustainably, these costs will be met within the Department’s existing Spending Review settlement.

Answered by:
Maggie Throup (Conservative)
22 April 2022