Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce poverty-related health inequalities.

The Government announced on 24 January 2023 that it will publish a Major Conditions Strategy, with an interim report to be published in the summer. The strategy will set out a policy agenda undertaking a shift to integrated, whole-person care, and will also apply a geographical lens to each condition to address regional disparities in health outcomes, supporting the levelling up mission to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030. Interventions set out in the strategy will aim to alleviate pressure on the health system, as well as support the Government’s objective to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce ill-health-related labour market inactivity.