HL Deb 24 January 1996 vol 568 c74WA
Baroness Jay of Paddington

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What assumptions they have made about numbers of new HIV infections and total numbers of live AIDS cases in 1996–97 compared with 1995–96 and how they are distributed between health authorities.

Baroness Cumberlege

For the financial year 1996–97 the Government have used the estimates of the number of people alive with AIDS and other severe HIV disease contained in the latest report onThe incidence and prevalence of AIDS and prevalence of other severe HIV disease in England and Wales for 1995 to 1999, published in the Communicable Disease Review on 5 January 1996. The allocations for 1995–96 were based on similar data contained in the previous Predictions Report published in 1993. Copies of the documents are available in the Library.

Distribution of resources to health authorities is based on the latest data on cumulative numbers of people reported by and resident in each Regional Health Authority to the Public Health Laboratory Service under the AIDS (Control) Act 1987.