Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his officials and Ministers have had with their counterparts in the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the duties placed on NHS bodies to reduce inequality.

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department of Health and Social Care work collaboratively on areas of crosscutting policy. The Health and Care Act 2022 has placed a duty on integrated care boards to reduce inequalities in access to and outcomes from NHS services.