HC Deb 08 July 1988 vol 136 c750W
Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the 27 HIV positive cases in Her Majesty's prison Brixton in 1985–86 came to be identified as such.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

HIV antibody positive prisoners are identified at Brixton prison as at other prison service establishments, by medical inquiry and examination. Brixton reported no such cases in 1985–86.