Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to provide additional funding for (a) sexual health services and (b) sexual health risk reduction (i) advice and (ii) interventions available (A) face-to-face and (B) online.

In 2022/23, we have allocated more than £3.4 billion to local authorities in England to fund public health services, including sexual health services, through the Public Health Grant. We will announce the 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities in due course.

Local authorities are responsible for commissioning comprehensive, open access sexual health services to meet local demand and these include online and face to face provision of advice and interventions. Individual local authorities decide on spending priorities based on an assessment of local need for sexual health services and the blend of service access that best suits their population.