Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of trends in level of funding for public health grants on a real-terms basis for each financial year since 2015-16; and if he will make a statement.
The following table shows the local authority public health grant allocations for each year since 2015/16. The targeted departmental public health funding is allocated to local authorities for drug treatment, the Start for Life programme, weight management services and human immunodeficiency virus pre-exposure prophylaxis.
The 2021 Spending Review confirmed that the public health grant to local authorities would increase over the settlement period. In 2022/23, the grant increased by 2.81% to £3.417 billion. This is in addition to targeted investment through local Government in Start for Life support and drug and alcohol treatment services.
Year | Real terms allocation (2021/22 prices) |
2015/16 | £3.471 million |
2016/17 | £3.794 million |
2017/18 | £3.640 million |
2018/19 | £3.484 million |
2019/20 | £3.306 million |
2020/21 | £3.255 million |
2021/22 | £3.324 million |
2022/23 | £3.259 million |
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