To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in the Official Report for each health authority in England, the number of persons infected with HIV; and if he will separately distinguish these numbers by age.

[holding answer 7 June 1990]: The number of reports of cases of HIV infection to 31 March 1990 is 11,638. The following table shows the totals reported by age and health authority to the Public Health Laboratory Service communicable diseases surveillance centre. In line with the procedure followed in reports under the AIDS (Control) Act, and to safeguard confidentiality, actual figures in the range of one to nine diagnosed in individual regional health authorities are not published. These are indicated by¹—.