Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote best practice for sexual health amongst local authorities and (b) disseminate good practice shown by local authorities on sexual health.

Jane Ellison

The Government’s ambitions for sexual health are set out in A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England (March 2013); a copy of which has already been placed in the Library. The first annual review of progress towards the ambitions in the Framework is in development and will include case studies of good and promising local practice. The Department, in partnership with other organisations including Public Health England, Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Public Health, has also produced a number of documents to assist local authorities to fulfil their new role in relation to sexual health commissioning.