Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the progress made on the Government's commitment to five extra years of healthy life for UK citizens by 2035.

We regularly review progress against a range of important indicators including life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

We have already taken a range of actions including implementing an ambitious obesity strategy, supporting interventions to reduce smoking and investing in improving access to health services across the country. On 1 October we launched the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) work in partnership with national and local government, the National Health Service, the voluntary sector, industry and the wider public health system to improve in health outcomes and disparities. The OHID will continue publishing the Productive Healthy Ageing profile providing data on a range of indicators including healthy life expectancy and will monitor the commitment to five extra years of healthy life for United Kingdom citizens by 2035.