PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Life Expectancy: Regional Planning and Development (25 January 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the Levelling Up white paper will include (a) improving life expectancy and (b) healthy life expectancy among its core aims.

Asked by:
Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

Levelling up means empowering local leaders and communities to seize their own destiny; boosting living standards, particularly where they are lower; spreading opportunity and improving public services, particularly where they are weak; and restoring local pride across the UK.

More details are set out in the White Paper which was published today.

Answered by:
Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
2 February 2022