Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking with the Minister for Women and Equalities, to tackle health inequalities.

Through our 10-Year Health Plan, we are committed to tackling the social determinants of health, improving healthy life expectancy for everyone, and halving the gap between the richest and poorest regions. By bringing together departments across the Government, we are ensuring that action on health is embedded in policies that shape people’s daily lives. Recent cross-Government action includes the Warm Homes Plan, the Keep Britain Working Review, and the Homelessness Strategy.

Reducing inequalities is hard‑wired throughout the Renewed Women’s Health Strategy. Actions are targeted by deprivation, ethnicity, and unmet need, with a focus on marginalised women, community‑based services, neighbourhood health models, and transparent data. Many initiatives explicitly prioritise areas with the highest inequality first, rather than relying on universal rollout alone.