Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has provided to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for schemes designed to combat the spread of HIV.

In 2020/21 and 2021/22 we have invested £33 million in the deployment of the HIV prevention drug pre-exposure prophylaxis in specialist sexual health clinics, which has been made routinely available in England, including Blackpool.

NHS England is investing £20 million for opt-out HIV testing in 21 local authority areas with the highest HIV prevalence, including Blackpool, in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines. All sites aim to be fully established during 2022/23.