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Mr. Cohen
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimates are available to him as to the number of prisoners who are HIV positive.
Mr. Mellor
On 7 April the prison population of England and Wales included 44 inmates reported as having been identified as HIV antibody positive. There is no statistically reliable estimate of the number of unidentified cases.