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Sexually Transmitted Infections

Commons · Question 35994 · Tabled 5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 13 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Paul Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections in England; and whether he plans to allocate public health funding to this.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 13 Mar 2025

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...