Lord Mawhinney – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mawhinney on 2016-10-13.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial resources they transferred to local authorities in 2015–16 which were designated to be spent on the provision of public health services; and what is their estimate of how much was spent on the provision of such services.

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

The public health grant is provided to give local authorities the funding needed to discharge their public heath responsibilities. The total allocation for 2015-16 was £2.80 billion. All details of this grant and the allocations which were made can be found at – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ring-fenced-public-health-grants-to-local-authorities-2013-14-and-2014-15.

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