Life Expectancy
Health
Written answers and statements, 21 April 2009
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which local authorities in the Spearhead Group (a) had widened the gap in life expectancy at birth compared with the population as a whole in the latest year for which information is available and (b) are not on course to meet the 2010 target of reducing that gap by 10 per cent.
Ann Keen (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Health Services), Department of Health; Brentford & Isleworth, Labour)
This information is contained in "Tackling Health Inequalities: 2005-07 Policy and Data Update for the 2010 National Target", which has been placed in the Library.