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Public Health: Investment Returns

Commons · Question 12176 · Tabled 31 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 5 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Helen Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the report entitled Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review, published in Mar

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 5 Nov 2024

We agree with the overall systematic review findings that local and national preventative public health interventions can be highly cost effective. The systematic review sets out analysis and evidence which has informed the Department’s own analysis.