Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of Public Health England's <i>Strategic plan for the next four years: better outcomes by 2020</i>, what plans they have to consider investment in sexual health and contraception as a component of any economic tool to support local and national investment decisions.

Public Health England (PHE) and the Department provide a variety of tools and support in the form of guidance, data and direct advice to local PHE Centre staff. For example PHE supports local decision making by including data on sexual health spend and outcomes in the Spend and Outcomes Tool (SPOT) provided to local authorities. SPOT gives organisations in England an overview of spend and outcomes across key areas of business. The profile supports understanding of the overall relationship between spend and outcomes, by identifying areas of significant variance which are likely to require more in-depth analysis.