Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he is making in doubling the number of places on the PrEP impact trial; and for what reasons 42 sites are currently closed to men who have sex with men.

The Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Impact Trial provides access to PrEP to almost 13,000 individuals across 150 trial sites. To inform the future commissioning of PrEP, the trial has been increased to enable up to 26,000 individuals to be recruited.

Currently, 147 clinics are open to recruitment. As at the beginning of June, 38 clinics notified the central trial team that they were not currently open to recruitment for men who have sex with men. It is understood that the range of reasons include temporary staffing or premise issues, capacity and local authority commissioner approval. This figure will therefore be subject to change.