Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of covid-19 on life expectancy in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.

We regularly review progress against a range of indicators, including life expectancy. The COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring for England tool provides provisional estimates of life expectancy in England and the English regions for 2020 and the preceding five years and is available at the following link:

https://analytics.phe.gov.uk/apps/chime/

Life expectancy in England and the West Midlands fell between 2019 and 2020. These falls in life expectancy in 2020 were almost entirely a result of deaths from COVID-19. Comparable estimates for local authorities are not available.

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities was established on 1 October to reduce such health disparities. It brings together expert advice, analysis and evidence with policy development and implementation, including regional capability which will work with local areas to deliver on national priorities, strengthen local and regional public health systems, and bring local innovation and insights to policy development.