Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of monkeypox on (a) sexual health service capacity and (b) the ability of that service to meet demands in access to testing, treatment and prevention of (i) HIV and (ii) other sexually transmitted infections.

No specific assessment has been made. However, the UK Health Security Agency continues to support sexual health services during the monkeypox outbreak.