Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent ill health in Surrey Heath constituency.

The 10-Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future announced ambitious measures to make the healthy choice the easy choice, including for people in Surrey Heath. This includes tackling the obesity epidemic through mandatory healthy food sales reporting, business targets to increase the healthiness of products sold, and restrictions on junk food advertising strengthening and expanding alcohol labelling and tackling air pollution. We are already delivering with our landmark Tobacco and Vapes Bill which will create a smoke-free United Kingdom.

We will also be asking the National Health Service to do more to support our approach to prevention. This includes through our world leading immunisation programmes and screening programmes, improving the detection, treatment, and management of the behavioural and clinical risk factors that drive England’s burden of disease.

NHS bodies and upper tier and unitary local authorities in England commission a range of preventative health services and are responsible for taking local decisions on the resources allocated to them. Core funding for upper tier and unitary local authorities in England public health responsibilities is through the Public Health Grant. The Government will continue to invest in local authorities' vital public health work, providing more than £13.4 billion over the next three years through a consolidated Public Health Grant, giving local authorities greater certainty to support long term prevention planning and make the best decisions to promote better population health.

NHS spending will increase by £15 billion in real terms by 2028/29, taking the resource budget to £225 billion, and the health capital budget will increase to £15.2 billion by the end of the Spending Review period. The Surrey local authority will receive nearly £50 million in 2026/27 through their Public Health Grant. From 1 April 2026, Surrey Heath will fall under the Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board which will see its recurrent core services allocation uplifted by 2.28% in 2026/27.