Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, how much funding has been allocated to specific new evidence-based NHS prevention programmes to (a) cut smoking, (b) reduce obesity,(c) the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, (d) limit alcohol related A&E admissions, (e) lower air pollution, and (f) in total; and whether that funding is (i) included and (ii) in addition to his Department’s public health grant to local authorities; and if he will make a statement.
Following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Implementation Framework, to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will be implemented. Additional details, based on local health system five year plans, will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn. The specific National Health Service-led prevention programmes set out in the Long Term Plan will be funded from within the NHS settlement.
This funding will be in addition to the public health grant to local authorities.