Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the drop in median income for the poorest fifth of people identified in the Office for National Statistics Average household income, UK: financial year ending 2019 release, published on 5 March, on the life expectancy of boys born in (1) the North West, (2) Yorkshire and the Humber, (3) the East Midlands, and (4) the West Midlands, regions in the 2016-18 period.

The Government has made no such assessment.

The Office for National Statistics published statistics on health state life expectancies by national deprivation deciles, England and Wales 2016 to 2018 on 27 March 2020.

We want to level up people’s opportunity to have a long and healthy life, whoever they are, wherever they live and whatever their background or social circumstances.