Housing: Health
Commons · Question 7658 · Tabled 7 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Andrew Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to help reduce?health inequalities?through housing in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) England.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 14 Oct 2024
The Government is taking steps to reduce health inequalities through housing reforms including extending ‘Awaab’s Law’ to the private rented sector and introducing a new Decent Homes Standard to drive up the quality of rented housing. In addition, as part...