Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of focussing opportunistic chlamydia screening only on young women on diagnosis levels since 2021.

The trend in chlamydia diagnoses is affected by multiple factors. The UK Health Security Agency routinely monitors chlamydia testing and diagnoses through sexually transmitted infection surveillance datasets. In 2022, there were 68,882 chlamydia diagnoses among females aged between 15 and 24 years old, a 22% increase compared to the 2021 figure of 56,562. There were 37,404 diagnoses in males aged between 15 and 24 years old in 2022, a 28% increase compared to the 2021 figure of 29,317.