Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department will make available additional funding to assist with the implementation of the sexual and reproductive health action plan.

Further information on the publication of the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) action plan will be available in due course. We are currently consulting with stakeholders on the actions for the SRH plan to improve outcomes in England and complement ‘Towards Zero: the HIV Action Plan for England - 2022 to 2025’, published in 2021.

No additional funding is currently planned for the implementation of the SRH action plan. We are considering the availability of existing funding and how this can deliver on priority actions, including through the Public Health Grant. We have allocated more than £3.4 billion to local authorities in England to fund public health services in 2022/23, including SRH services.