Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention
Organisations:
Department of Health and Social Care
Current role holder:
Sharon Hodgson MP
Responsibilities
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention is responsible for:
- health protection
- sexual health and HIV
- health improvement
- children’s health
- major, long-term and rare conditions
- secondary prevention
- screening
- health inequalities
- work and health
- men’s health
Current role holder
Sharon Hodgson MP
Sharon Hodgson MP was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Health and Social Care on 3 March 2026.