Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of trends in the level of economic inactivity owing to ill-health.

There are 9.4 million working age people who are economically inactive in the UK, an increase of 860,000 since the start of the pandemic. Inactivity due to ill health is a major reason for economic inactivity and stands at a near-record high of 2.8 million people. To tackle economic inactivity, we will publish a White Paper to Get Britain Working.