Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress her Department has made on identifying the key reasons why people (a) may not be offered and (b) decline the offer of a HIV test in sexual health clinics.

Further work is being undertaken by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to explore reasons why people may not be offered or decline the offer of an HIV test in Sexual Health clinics. UKHSA will provide a descriptive analysis of predictors in the third quarter of 2024.