Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that future announcements on provisional local government finance settlements and public health grants to local authorities are published within a week of each other.

Following the upcoming Spending Review, we will aim to issue multi-year public health allocations to local authorities from 2026/27, to support local planning.

The Department of Health and Social Care will continue to work with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to improve coordination of allocations.