Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many finished consultant episodes there were with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of HIV infection in (i) England and (ii) each region in each year since 1989.

Data on HIV diagnoses are not available by hospital consultant episode, or by primary and secondary diagnosis.

Public Health England (PHE) routinely collects data on people confirmed newly diagnosed with HIV care in the United Kingdom. Data on those newly diagnosed and resident in England and each PHE centre of residence from 1981 to 2017 are available to view at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables