Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the impact of the NHS Pay Settlement is on the Public Health Grant for 2023-24; and whether that Grant is a real-terms increase from 2022-23.

For the 2023/24 pay offer announced on 16 March 2023, the Department has already made funding available for up to 3.5% for pay in 2023/24 in its existing budgets. The Department is working with the Treasury to ensure it has the money it needs to fully fund this pay offer, which will include additional funding, looking across Departmental budgets and wider public spending. In 2023/24, the total Public Health Grant to local authorities will be £3.529 billion, a real-terms increase of 0.7% relative to 2022/23.