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Coronavirus: Screening

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL9999, tabled on 4 November 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce rapid COVID-19 testing for all workplaces.

Answered on

3 December 2020

The Department is running a series of workplace testing pilots across the United Kingdom. Early detection of positive cases is the most effective way to prevent operational shutdown in key industries, performing vital public services. These pilots will enable information gathering which will help towards the objective of gradually increasing the number of sectors participating in routine workplace testing.