Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has allocated additional funding to sexual health services in response to recent cases of monkeypox.

While no specific additional funding has been allocated, we are providing more than £3.4 billion to local authorities through the Public Health Grant to invest in essential frontline services, including sexual health services. The UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) is supporting sexual health services during the outbreak, including the identification and management of infected cases. We are working with commissioners and providers of sexual health services to monitor the impact of monkeypox on these services.