Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote (a) sexual health and (b) sexual health education throughout the entire lifespan in the UK.

Public Health England’s (PHE) Health promotion for sexual and reproductive health and HIV strategic action plan, 2016 to 2019 aims to reduce health inequalities and achieve improvements in sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention across the life course.

These actions include committing PHE to tailoring its approach to address the needs of key life stages by focusing on preventative intervention on critical periods of risk in people’s lives. PHE aims to achieve the greatest improvements in sexual health and reductions in health inequalities through education and early prevention. PHE has also launched a set of documents and is developing an action plan aimed at improving women’s reproductive health.

Detailed information on actions and aims addressing sexual health and sexual health education throughout the life course is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488090/SRHandHIVStrategicPlan_211215.pdf

Further information on reproductive health is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reproductive-health-what-women-say