Public Health: Finance

(asked on 8th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Consensus Statement, published by Cancer Research UK on 7 May 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications of that statement for his Department's policy on ensuring that there is a sustainable funding solution for public health services provided by local authorities.


Answered by
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Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 13th May 2019

Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties. This funding is in addition to what the National Health Service spends on public health, which included over £1.2 billion in 2018/19 on national public health programmes such as immunisations and screening. Future funding arrangements for local authorities’ health duties will be considered carefully in the next spending review, in the light of all the available evidence.

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