Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the estimated life expectancy is for people who earn (a) below and (b) above the average household income.

Data for life expectancy, broken down by household income, is not routinely collected.

Life expectancy is higher now than it has ever been for both men and women, and is generally increasing in most areas – including deprived areas, but inequalities remain.

The Office for National Statistics publishes data on life expectancy broken down by deprivation decile. The latest available data, 2012-14, show that life expectancy for males in the most deprived decile is 74.1 years, compared with 83.2 years for males in the least deprived decile. For females it is 79.1 years in the most deprived decile, compared with 86.1 years in the least deprived decile.