Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the national sexual and reproductive health strategy takes into account (a) structural inequalities relating to and (b) social determinants of sexual ill-health.

The development of the national sexual health and reproductive health strategy was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we are moving forward with the Government’s COVID-19 recovery strategy, work on the strategy will be restarting shortly. We will consider issues around inequalities and other relevant areas as part of the strategy development.