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
-
Seema Kennedy
2019 to 2019
-
Steve Brine MP
2017 to 2019
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s – statement to Parliament
- Children to have greater opportunity to access 60 minutes of physical activity every day
- Vaccine for older adults gives significant protection against flu
- PHE priorities in health and social care: 2019 to 2020
- Government and top sports bodies to help children play more sport
- Industrial strategy delivers new vaccines manufacturing centre to lead the fight against deadly disease
- Bowel screening to start at 50
- Drug misuse and dependency: government responses to ACMD reports
- Tackling drug resistance: UK-China funding competition opens
- International Development Secretary praises rapid plague response