Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take following the removal of the target allocation for public health spending to assist (a) Plymouth City Council and (b) others disadvantaged in public health spend allocations to move towards fair share allocations.

The Department for Communities and Local Government consulted recently on whether the public health grant should be replaced by income from local authorities’ retained business rates. We will review the question of target allocations of funding for public health in the light of the outcome of that consultation.