To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many male and female prisoners in England and Wales have been found to have contracted the human immuno deficiency virus since monitoring commenced in March 1985; and how many prisoners are currently HIV positive.

On 19 March 1991) the prison population of England and Wales included 61 male and seven female prisoners reported as having been identified as HIV antibody positive. On the same date the numbers of identified cases reported since March 1985 were 242 males and 42 females.