Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are participating in the PrEP Impact Trial; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of spaces available on that trial on the 31 May 2019.

With the expansion of 13,000 additional places for the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Impact Trial in February 2019, the total PrEP Impact Trial size is 26,000 places in England.

PrEP Trial recruitment monitoring is regularly reported to the programme oversight board, the trial steering committee, and the trial management group to continually assess the capacity to answer trial study objectives. The Board met on 20 March and received an update on trial site capacity and commissioner approvals of additional trial places. More information on the release of trial places is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/blood-and-infection-group-f/f03/prep-trial-updates/#April

Further information on the PrEP Impact Trial can be found at the following link:

https://www.prepimpacttrial.org.uk/