§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which prisons currently operate viral infectivity restrictions for prisoners with HIV/AIDS; and what proportion this represents of the total number of prison establishments within England and Wales. [26412]
§ Mr. Michael ForsythResponsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Derek Lewis to Mr. Harry Cohen, dated 6 June 1995:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the operation of viral infectivity restrictions for prisoners with HIV and or AIDS.Of those prisons which currently hold inmates known to have HIV infection, none operates viral infectivity restrictions.When the last survey was carried out in December 1993 7 prisons said that they would apply VIR to HIV positive prisoners. However at that time, as at present, none of these prisons hold inmates with HIV infection.