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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...