Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to reduce the risk of HIV and to improve early diagnosis of the infection of people who sleep rough.

In 2013 the Department published the Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England. The Framework highlights the additional risks faced by homeless people around sexual health and HIV and states that it is vital that their health needs are met.

Public Health England supports local authorities to understand the effectiveness of their local system for homeless people, including access to and quality of healthcare for rough sleepers and other single homeless people. The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health, the Queen's Nursing Institute, Homeless Link and St. Mungo's Broadway, and Find and Treat are amongst a number of partners involved in this work.