Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the role of public health and wellbeing in his Department's levelling-up agenda.

Improving public health and wellbeing is a critical part of levelling up. The government is already taking action to level up health inequalities and improve wellbeing across the UK. This includes £3.7 billion of investment to build 40 hospitals and recruit 50,000 new nurses in England, ensuring people have access to the best public services, wherever they live. We have also committed to increasing the number of GP appointments while preventing 150,000 cases of cardiovascular disease and diagnosing 75 percent of cancer cases early.