<p>In 2023/24, the total Public Health Grant to local authorities will be £3.529 billion, increasing to £3.575 billion in 2024/25. This will provide every local authority with real-terms funding protection over the next two years.</p><p>This is part of a wider package of specific public health investment up to 2025 of £170 million to improve the Start for Life offer available to families, and £516 million to support improvements in the quality and capacity of drug and alcohol treatment. This means that overall, the Department investment in local authority public health services will grow by over 5% in real terms over the next two years.</p><p>Our ambition is to improve healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035 and reduce the gap between areas where it is highest and lowest by 2030.</p><p>We have announced that we will publish a Major Conditions Strategy and interventions set out in the strategy will aim to alleviate pressure on the health system, as well as support the government’s objective to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce ill-health related labour market inactivity</p>