Prevention of Ill Health: Government Vision Debate

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Paul Williams

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Prevention of Ill Health: Government Vision

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Monday 5th November 2018

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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There are many ways to make one’s food taste good and make it healthy, too.

Paul Williams Portrait Dr Paul Williams (Stockton South) (Lab)
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It is astonishing that there was no mention in the statement of poverty as a cause of ill health. Is the Secretary of State really so out of touch with communities in this country that he does not see how austerity is making people ill?

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The statement talks all about the wider determinants of health. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to talk about poverty specifically, it is absolute poverty, not relative poverty, that has a link to ill health, and that has fallen.

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