PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health: Disadvantaged (21 April 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Health Foundation report, Build Back Fairer: The Covid-19 Marmot Review, that health was deteriorating, life expectancy stalling and health inequalities widening over the last decade and that this impacted case fatality ratios of covid-19 on the poorest in society.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

We are determined to address the long-standing inequalities that exist in many areas.NHS England has committed to inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the National Health Service has set eight actions to reduce inequalities in its restoration of services including reporting on providing services to the 20% poorest neighbourhoods.

Regular discussions continue to take place with Cabinet colleagues. The Minister for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch MP) is leading work to take forward the response to tackle COVID-19 disparities experienced by individuals from an ethnic minority background. There is also wider work underway across Government to consider the impact the virus has had on other groups, such as disabled people.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
28 April 2021