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HIV/AIDS: Foreign Nationals

Asked by Dr Caroline JohnsonConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 4 November 2025UIN 86269

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to information provided below Figure 11 in the UK Health Security Agency's official statistics entitled HIV testing, PrEP, new HIV diagnoses and care outcomes for people accessing HIV services: 2025 report, published on 7 October 2025, if he will publish the underlying data on the years in which newly diagnosed HIV patients first arrived in England.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The number of people newly diagnosed in England in 2025 who were born abroad, by year of arrival, is published in figure 12 of the recently published HIV testing, PrEP, new HIV diagnoses and care outcomes for people accessing HIV services: 2025 report, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables/hiv-testing-prep-new-hiv-diagnoses-and-care-outcomes-for-people-accessing-hiv-services-2025-report

Among the 1,669 people born abroad and newly diagnosed with HIV in England in 2024:

  • 346 arrived in 2024;
  • 434 arrived in 2023;
  • 163 arrived in 2022;
  • 535 arrived before 2022; and
  • 191 did not have year of arrival reported.

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