Local Authority Public Health Budgets: Prevention Vision

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 15 January 2019.

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Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

Local authorities will receive £3 billion in 2019-20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health, but our ambitions for prevention go far beyond any one pot of money. “Prevention is better than cure” was widely welcomed, and we will build on it with a comprehensive Green Paper later this year.