Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of poor housing on health; and what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on this matter.
In 2017, Public Health England published ‘Spatial planning for health: evidence review’, which concluded that poor housing conditions are a significant contributing factor to poor health outcomes. The Government is addressing poor housing through improving standards in private and socially rented accommodation and delivering the greatest improvements in the poorest performing areas through the Social Housing Bill and Decent Homes Standard.