Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made on the impact in-work poverty on health outcomes.

We recognise the influence of determinants such as income have on health and the need to support low-income and vulnerable households in the context of increasing cost of living. The Government’s Energy Price Guarantee will save the average household at least £1,000 a year, in addition to the £37 billion allocated to measures to assist households and businesses, including £15 billion to directly support the most vulnerable households.