Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the HIV Commission's plan published in December 2020, what progress his Department has made on (a) reducing new cases of HIV in England by 80 per cent by 2025 and (b) ending new cases of HIV in England by 2030; and if he will make a statement.

Between 2014 and 2019, there was a 34% reduction in new HIV diagnoses in England. In March 2020, the Government announced that the HIV prevention drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) would be routinely available across England in 2020/21 as part of the commitment to achieve zero new HIV transmissions. PrEP is now routinely available in the specialist sexual and reproductive health services throughout the country.

In addition, the Department is developing a new Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy and an HIV Action Plan on reaching the 2030 target, both of which are planned for publication later this year.