Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the barriers related to (1) ethnicity, (2) gender, (3) age, (4) sexuality, and (5) English literacy level, associated with accessing sexual health services.

No specific assessment has been made. Local authorities in England are mandated to provide comprehensive open access sexual health services including access to the full range of contraception and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.

Work on the development of a new national sexual and reproductive health strategy is underway with the Department working with Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Improvement, local government and other partners. Details of the strategy’s scope will be announced in due course.