Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department (a) has taken and (b) plans to take in 2022 to assess the reasons for varied rates of (i) uptake and (ii) offer of HIV testing in sexual health clinics across England.

The monitoring and evaluation framework for the HIV Action Plan in England is currently being developed and will be published later in 2022. The Plan will assess the reasons for variation in the HIV testing offer and uptake across sexual health clinics in England. Details of this assessment will be included as part of the monitoring and evaluation framework.

The UK Health Security Agency continues to monitor and publish data on the test offer and uptake within specialist sexual health services at national and local level, including inequalities in different population groups.