Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 35995

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Paul Davies

LabourColne Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the uplift in the Public Health Grant is allocated effectively by local authorities to tackle the rising rates of sexually transmitted infections

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Dedicated local sexual health services play a key public health role in the diagnosis, early treatment, and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Individual local authorities, funded through a ring-fenced Public Health Grant (PHG), are res...

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