Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to help reduce the number of people living with HIV who have missing evidence of viral suppression in England.

Automated validation of data received by the HIV and AIDS reporting system is undertaken annually at the point of submission from HIV outpatient clinics and data of poor quality is returned to the relevant clinic for correction. In addition, records relating to patients with missing information are returned to clinics for completion to improve viral load completeness and other information during data cleaning exercises for the annual clinical outcome dashboard.