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Health: Dudley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce health inequalities in Dudley.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Jul 2024
Target answer date
22 Jul 2024
Answer
23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce health inequalities in Dudley.

  2. 22 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Jul 2024

    Answer published

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  4. 8 Aug 2024

    Answer corrected

    As part of our health mission, the Government is committed to ensuring people live well for longer. This includes tackling the determinants that underpin stark health inequalities, to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poores...

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