Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings and recommendations on the health levelling up mission in the report by the East of England APPG and EELGA entitled Levelling up in the East of England - the East of England's progress towards the Government’s twelve levelling up missions; and if he will make a statement.

We welcome the report published by the East of England APPG and East of England LGA on levelling up in the East of England. The Government is committed to the Levelling Up Mission to improve Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) by five years by 2035 and to narrow the gap by 2030. We are committed to supporting individuals to live healthier lives by improving access to and levelling-up health and care across the country. The Department continues to review how best to improve healthy life expectancy and further information will be available in due course.