Baroness Gould of Potternewton – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Gould of Potternewton on 2016-03-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health, Jane Ellison, on 28 January (HC23930), how many responses Public Health England’s survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health has received (1) in total, (2) from local authorities (LA), (3) from NHS England, and (4) from Clinical Commissioning Groups; and what relationship that survey will have to the LA contraception tool.

Lord Prior of Brampton

To date Public Health England (PHE) has received 113 responses to its sexual health commissioning survey. The total number of responses received is broken down as follows: 103 local authorities (from a total of 152), seven National Health Service regions (from a total of 13) and three clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) (from a total of 229).

PHE is actively exploring options to ensure that CCGs are appropriately represented; the options under consideration are reissuing of the survey, surveying a representative sample, or direct interview with CCGs.

There is no relationship between the commissioning survey and any local authority contraception tool.