Question follow-through · 117486
Life Expectancy
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
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.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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