Question follow-through · 9813
Health Services: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the current NHS resource allocation formula on more deprived areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the current NHS resource allocation formula on more deprived areas.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The National Health Service resource allocation formula is intended to support equal opportunity of access for equal need, taking account of NHS England’s duty to have regard to the need to reduce health inequalities. The formula takes account of factors ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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IVF
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IVF: LGBT+ People
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of same-sex female couples are receiving NHS-funded IVF after undertaking six self-funded rounds of Intrauterine insemination as recommended by NICE.
Resident Doctors
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Life Expectancy: Sandwell
24 Feb 2026 · 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
Life Expectancy
3 Mar 2026 · 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.
Life Expectancy
3 Mar 2026 · 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.
Life Expectancy: Sandwell
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Health Services: Transgender People
23 Mar 2026 · 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.
Health Services: Transgender People
23 Mar 2026 · 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.