Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the (a) number of people with a blood-borne virus and (b) level of access to (i) screening and (ii) treatment is monitored nationally and locally.

Data are not collected for all blood borne viruses (BBV). However, Public Health England collects data on the number of people with Hepatitis A, B, C, D and E, Human T-cell virus, and HIV infections in England at national and local level. This includes monitoring universal BBV screening programmes in pregnant women and blood donors.

Where available, both national and local data on BBV testing and treatment are published in annual data tables and reports. For example, HIV treatment and care is monitored by PHE through data on attendances and treatment of people attending National Health Service HIV specialist services in England. Hepatitis C treatment is monitored through a NHS England national treatment registry.