Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the Retention and Engagement in Care Task-and-Finish Group to report; and who the members of that Group are.

As part of the Government’s HIV Action Plan, a retention and re-engagement in care task and finish group was established in 2023. This group will provide advice on increasing the number of people retained and re-engaged in care and receiving effective medical care. They will present their recommendations to the HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group in due course, who will agree how the advice will be taken forward.

Members of the group includes UK Health Security Agency, NHS England, Local Government Association, HIV Clinical Reference Group, British HIV Association, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, English HIV and Sexual Health Commissioners Group, Association of Directors of Public Health, BHA for Equality, National AIDS Trust and Terrence Higgins Trust.