Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) quality and (b) adequacy of availability of sexual health services (i) nationally and (ii) in York.

No formal assessment has been made of the quality and availability of sexual health services to meet demand nationally or locally.

Local authorities in England are responsible for commissioning comprehensive open access to most sexual health services (SHSs) through the public health grant funded at £3.5 billion in 2023/24. Individual local authorities are well placed to make funding and commissioning decisions about the SHSs that best meet the needs of their local populations.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) supports local areas such as York to improve sexual health service delivery through data monitoring and reporting.