Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the expansion of the PrEP Impact Trial outside of London as soon as possible.

NHS England announced on 28 February that the PrEP Impact Trial will be expanded and that new trial places will begin to be released following agreement at the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Oversight Board. Information on the trial is available to view at the following links:

www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2019/02/prep-impact-trial-to-be-expanded/

Before finalising arrangements and releasing places, participating clinics and local authority commissioners were asked to confirm if they had the capacity to take on additional places. Around 80% of participating clinics have confirmed they have the capacity to accept additional trial places and most of these sites have also received approval from their local authority commissioners to proceed.

In the meantime, for trial sites outside of London, the research team will now make rapid arrangements to release the extra places when all necessary approvals have been obtained.