Comments on the government's testing claim has put Business Secretary Alok Sharma into a spot.
The government has been giving details of daily tests, but not for how many people have been tested - which is often lower as some need more than one for clinical reasons. Downing Street has blamed 'technical' reasons for the absence of the information over recent days.
Asked for the number of individuals tested, Mr Sharma told BBC Breakfast: 'Forgive me, I may be wrong, but I think this was set out, I think it was around 115,000, I think was the figure set out yesterday.
'I'm very happy to come back to you or make sure that we provide you with that information if we have it.'
The Government said there were 115,725 tests in the 24 hours up to 9am yesterday, but the figure is for tests rather than people tested.
Mr Sharma tried to clear up his mistake later, acknowledging on Sky News that the Government had 'paused' releasing figures on the number of people being tested.
He said there was a need to make sure the data was 'right'.
'Those figures will, of course, be released and any errors that have been made in the system will be put right,' he said.
The PM's spokesman said; 'There is an issue with not being able to get the number of people who have been tested from one of the government's commercial partners.
