Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care

Organisations: Department of Health and Social Care

Responsibilities

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Public Health and Primary Care) leads on the following policy areas:

• primary care
• prevention and early intervention
• health protection and improvement
• sexual health
• public health system
• international diplomacy and relations
• major diseases
• NHS litigation

Ministerial lead for:

• Public Health England
• Food Standards Agency
• NHS Resolution

Previous holders of this role

1. Seema Kennedy

   2019 to 2019

2. Steve Brine

   2017 to 2019

Announcements

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• Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s – statement to Parliament
  • 23 July 2019
  • Written statement
• Children to have greater opportunity to access 60 minutes of physical activity every day
  • 14 July 2019
  • Press release
• Vaccine for older adults gives significant protection against flu
  • 30 May 2019
  • Press release
• PHE priorities in health and social care: 2019 to 2020
  • 27 March 2019
  • Correspondence
• Government and top sports bodies to help children play more sport
  • 19 December 2018
  • News story
• Industrial strategy delivers new vaccines manufacturing centre to lead the fight against deadly disease
  • 01 December 2018
  • Press release
• Bowel screening to start at 50
  • 10 August 2018
  • Press release
• Drug misuse and dependency: government responses to ACMD reports
  • 13 April 2018
  • Correspondence
• Tackling drug resistance: UK-China funding competition opens
  • 28 March 2018
  • Press release
• International Development Secretary praises rapid plague response
  • 01 February 2018
  • News story

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