Sarah Coombes MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Health Services: Transgender PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure trans people have equal access to healthcare.
Answer: All patients, including LGBT+ patients, should feel comfortable and confident accessing National Health Services when they need to. Nobody should experience discrimination while accessing the healthcare they need.We understand LGBT+ patients experience sp...
Answered 7 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Transgender PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle discrimination against trans people in the healthcare system.
Answer: All patients, including LGBT+ patients, should feel comfortable and confident accessing National Health Services when they need to. Nobody should experience discrimination while accessing the healthcare they need.We understand LGBT+ patients experience sp...
Answered 7 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordLife Expectancy: SandwellDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, after factoring in the national decline in healthy life expectancy referenced in the answer of 3 March 2026 to Question 115639, for what reason Sandwell has seen a further decline in HLE for men an
Answer: According to the Office for National Statistics, the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased mortality during 2020, 2021, and 2022, and explains the national decline observed in healthy life expectancy (HLE) since 2020. Some negative impact remains in the late...
Answered 16 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLife ExpectancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to half the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions.
Answer: It is a priority for the Government to halve the gap between the richest and the poorest regions and to ensure that everyone, no matter where they are born, lives well for longer. We recognise that recently released Office for National Statistics Data on ...
Answered 16 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLife ExpectancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the answer of 3 March 2026 to question 115639, what factors are behind the national decline in healthy life expectancy since 2020.
Answer: According to the Office for National Statistics, the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased mortality during 2020, 2021, and 2022, and explains the national decline observed in healthy life expectancy (HLE) since 2020. Some negative impact remains in the late...
Answered 16 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLife Expectancy: SandwellDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the ONS document entitled Healthy life expectancy, UK: between 2011 to 2013 and 2022 to 2024, published on 19 February 2026, whether his Department has assessed the reasons for de
Answer: Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) at birth for females and males in Sandwell was fairly stable from the beginning of our current consistent data series, 2011 to 2013, up until 2018 to 2020, at which point it peaked temporarily. Since then, the steady decline ...
Answered 3 Mar 2026
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