Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is in place for the provision of public health initiatives in localities considered by Public Health England to have a high prevalence of hepatitis C.

Public Health England supports work on local prioritisation of hepatitis C services by producing factsheets for local government, publishing a template to support commissioning by estimating the number of people infected with hepatitis C locally and the costs of treatment. It has also published local liver profiles at local authority level which includes, key local statistics and prevention guidance on hepatitis C and questions for local authority Health and Wellbeing Boards to consider.