The Government has put delivering economic growth at the centre of its policy commitments and a healthy nation is essential to achieving this ambition. Improving the nation's health will improve the economy through increased productivity and less demand for health and social care, and consideration for the consequences of people's health should be at the centre of all Government policies.

Over the past decade, there have been substantial cuts to public health funding across the UK, including more than a quarter real-terms per person cut in the value of the Public Health Grant in England and in our recent Spending Review submission, we called for more investment in prevention and public health to help deliver economic growth.