Question follow-through · 86271
HIV/AIDS: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average cost of testing an adult for HIV.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average cost of testing an adult for HIV.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
Adult HIV testing is commissioned in a range of different circumstances and by different providers, therefore the cost varies depending on these factors. No estimate has been made of the average cost of testing an adult for HIV across all settings.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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