Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the HIV Action Plan for England - 2022 to 2025, published in December 2021, if he will publish his planned timetable for the expansion of opt-out HIV testing, including details of the locations testing will be extended to.

NHS England are investing £20 million over the next three years to expand opt-out testing in emergency departments in 21 local authority areas with the highest prevalence of HIV, in line with guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. All sites are preparing to establish opt-out testing during 2022/23, with sites in London due to be fully operational by September 2022. The following table shows a list of these local authority areas.