Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 18 April 2018, Official Report, column 190WH, on Austerity: Life Expectancy, if he will publish the evidence referred to relating to other European countries.

Chapter Four of The Health Profile for England, published in July 2017, presents data comparing the life expectancy for the United Kingdom with that of other European countries for 2015. Chapter 4: European comparisons is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-profile-for-england/chapter-4-european-comparisons