Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Make Covid tests free for everyone again

Closed 469 signatures

What the petition asks

With covid on the rise again, people are not testing as much as before, mainly due to having to pay for them. People are struggling with every day things like food, gas, electricity, and should not have to pay for Covid tests. The Government should make these freely available again.
I feel that if Covid tests were free again, more people would be able to test more often, helping to identify cases earlier and hopefully reduce onwards transmission and overall infection rates.

We need to keep rates down, especially at this time of the year.

Timeline

10 Oct 2022 Petition opened for signatures
10 Apr 2023 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 469
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 10 Oct 2022
Closed 10 Apr 2023

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.