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Life Expectancy: Disadvantaged

Commons · Question 26023 · Tabled 1 Sep 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to increase healthy life expectancy for children born into deprived areas.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 9 Sep 2026

Tackling child poverty is at the heart of the Government’s commitment to raising the healthiest generation of children in history. In the ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, we have committed to tackling health inequalities associated with child poverty by ...