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1140806

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date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in public health funding on health inequalities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	280246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Public health services can have a significant impact in improving the health of the population and reducing unfair differences between marginalised groups of people or communities.</p><p>The Government has made difficult choices to protect public services in the long term. We remain committed to securing five extra years of healthy, independent life by 2035 and reducing the gap between rich and poor with proposals set out in the Prevention Green Paper and a Long Term Plan for the National Health Service with a greater focus on prevention. We want everyone to have the same opportunity to have a long healthy life, whoever they are and whatever their social circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 280247 question first answered 25/07/2019 16:09:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1140807

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of reductions in public health funding on the health and wellbeing of the most marginalised people in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	280247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>Public health services can have a significant impact in improving the health of the population and reducing unfair differences between marginalised groups of people or communities.</p><p>The Government has made difficult choices to protect public services in the long term. We remain committed to securing five extra years of healthy, independent life by 2035 and reducing the gap between rich and poor with proposals set out in the Prevention Green Paper and a Long Term Plan for the National Health Service with a greater focus on prevention. We want everyone to have the same opportunity to have a long healthy life, whoever they are and whatever their social circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 280246 question first answered 25/07/2019 16:09:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1140808

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Public Health: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the percentage change has been in the (a) NHS budget and (b) local authority public health grant in each year from 2013-14 to 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	280248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the percentage change in total funding for NHS England and the local authority public health grant in each year since 2013:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>NHS England funding increase %</p></td><td><p>Public Health Grant increase %</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>First year of NHS England</p></td><td><p>5.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td><td><p>24%<sup>1,2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>5.5%</p></td><td><p>-2.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>3.6%</p></td><td><p>-2.5%<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>4.6%</p></td><td><p>-2.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>7.8%</p></td><td><p>-2.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1 </sup>2015-16 includes a £200 million in-year cut implemented in advance of Spending Review 2015.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Spending Review 2015 baseline, includes the transfer in October 2015 of funding from NHS England to local authorities for commissioning services for children aged 0 – 5 in October 2015.</p><p><sup>3 </sup>From 2017/18, includes funding retained by 10 Greater Manchester local authorities as part of a business rate pilot, not allocated via a grant.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 25/07/2019 14:34:35 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1139402

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Medicine: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the adequacy of funding for medical R&D in advance of the Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	277741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met regularly with the former Chancellor (Rt. hon Philip Hammond MP) and other Cabinet colleagues to discuss a range of issues related to funding for medical research and development.</p><p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) budget for 2019/20 is just over £1 billion and welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. Information on individual projects funded by the NIHR can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/" target="_blank">https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/</a></p><p>The future of budgets outside of the NHS England resource settlement, including capital budgets for research and development, will be confirmed later this year at the Spending Review 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/07/2019 14:20:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon