Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of funding for monkeypox services in the NHS.

The monkeypox response is funded mainly by local authority commissioners from their public health grant. As of 23 September 2022, the United Kingdom is at Level 2, transmission within a defined population group, with flat or negative growth. On 8 December UK Health Security Agency published its strategy for the eventual ambition of eliminating person-to-person transmission available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mpox-monkeypox-control-uk-strategy-2022-to-2023