Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 24 January 2023 on Government Action on Major Conditions and Diseases, HCWS514, and to the white paper entitled Levelling Up the United Kingdom, published on 2 February 2022, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the Major Conditions Strategy on the Government's policies for reducing the gap in healthy life expectancy between areas where it is highest and lowest.

The Major Conditions Strategy will tackle conditions that contribute most to morbidity and mortality across the population in England: cancers; cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes; chronic respiratory diseases; dementia; mental ill health; and musculoskeletal conditions.

Tackling them is critical to achieving our manifesto commitment of gaining five extra years of Healthy Life Expectancy by 2035, and our levelling up mission to narrow the gap in Healthy Life Expectancy by 2030.