Question follow-through · 109997
Health: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce regional inequalities in health outcomes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce regional inequalities in health outcomes.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2026
Answer published
It is a priority for the Government to increase the amount of time people spend in good health and prevent premature deaths, with an ambitious commitment to halve the healthy life expectancy gap between the richest and poorest regions.We know that everyda...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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