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Will you pay for lateral flow tests when they stop being free?

Beverley Bird: No. If the government want us to take them they should provide them for us. The cost of living has gone up ridiculously, so where does it stop , our health. They should be provided on the NHS.

Wendy Hawdon: Some people will not be able to afford them and some others don't care; vulnerable people will live in isolation from now on. The tests ought to have remained free.

Fiona Moss: Yes. But they should remain free for anyone on a low income, or benefits or OAPs.

Bill Walton: TBF I come under the vulnerable group and although I tested positive I was pretty much asymptomatic. We can’t subsidise it forever.

Bev Dodds: No, we don't test for flu every morning and we have learnt to live with that.

Jill Williams Ross:

Has there been any indication of how much they will be per box?

Stephen Payne: What's the point in testing now. If your poorly you'll probably stop in until feeling better anyway. The only ones at risk are work colleagues, as you still have to go to work.

Derek Rose: At present, working for the NHS and being classed as a key worker, I have to test myself twice a week. If they want me to continue testing after April then they should provide them.

Karen Johnson: No choice if you have to test to care for someone vulnerable. Where they think people will find the extra money is beyond me.

June Brownlee: Yes I would because I don’t want to see the best Health Care System in the world, go under or be overtaken by other countries, where it would eventually be made ‘private’, then everyone would be complaining about the cost of Health Care.

Jennifer O’Hanlon: I would have to if they aren't free for care homes anymore.

Julie Beveridge: They should be free for all. The demand for them will decrease.