Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to review its sexual health policy to reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections.

The development of a national sexual health strategy is a key recommendation in the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report on sexual health, which was published on 2 June 2019. The Government is currently considering the report’s recommendations and will publish a formal response shortly. In the Green Paper consultation ‘Advancing Our Health – Prevention in the 2020s’, we sought views on priorities for a possible new strategy and will consider the responses carefully.