Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the healthy life expectancy mission in the Levelling Up White Paper, what the projected improvement in health outcomes in each year to 2030 are for (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield local authority and (c) Yorkshire and Humber region.

The Levelling Up White Paper set out 12 ambitious new missions that are targeted, measurable and time-bound declarations of the progress needed to achieve levelling up.

The metrics through which progress on the health mission will be measured, including the geographical coverage, are set out in Figures 15 and 16 in the Technical Annex to the White Paper. The Office for National Statistics publishes data on Healthy Life Expectancy by upper tier local authority in England, local authority in Wales, council areas in Scotland, and local government districts in Northern Ireland. The supporting metrics for the mission include smoking prevalence of adults, ​​obesity prevalence of children and adults, cancer diagnosis at stage 1 and 2, and the under 75 mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases considered preventable. These are available at various geographical levels.