Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to re-open the 40 PrEP impact trial sites that are not currently recruiting gay and bisexual men.

Participation in the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Impact Trial is on a voluntary basis and it is for clinics and local authorities to decide the number of allocated places they can accept.

As at the end of 2019, thousands of places remain available on the trial at over 100 clinic sites. It is the goal of this research to make full use of up to 26,000 places. Clinics that are able to do so, will be able to request additional places should they become available and continue recruitment of eligible gay and bisexual men. As participation in this research trial is on a voluntary basis, a small number of closed clinics sites may not reopen.