Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the research by the Centre for Health Economics at York, entitled Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Estimates of the Impact of English Public Health Grant on Mortality and Morbidity, published July 2019, if he will make an assessment of the impact for his policies of the findings of that research.

This study is one of the evidence sources that has been drawn on to inform decisions about funding for public health services. 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.