Sexually Transmitted Infections
Commons · Question 35995 · 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 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
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...