Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to require the UK Health Security Agency to produce more granular data on (a) HIV, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) gender and (e) migration status.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) data by ethnicity, age and country of birth is published annually online. In addition to national summaries, there are specific tables for regional levels and for key populations.

As part of the HIV Action Plan, published in 2021, the UK Health Security Agency has published a monitoring and evaluation framework. This contains key prevention indicators to track progress towards the aims of the Action Plan. A first iteration of the monitoring and evaluation framework was published 1 December 2022 and is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hiv-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework

This framework outlines the commitment to make more granular data using an interactive patient pathway available for local areas and a commitment to produce the indicators by key demographics, including age, ethnicity, gender country of birth and more later in 2023.