division_name: Health Inequalities
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d903.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the publication of Health Equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On; is concerned by its findings that since 2010 improvements to life expectancy have stalled for the first time in more than 100 years and declined for the poorest women in society, that the health gap between wealthy and deprived areas has grown, and that the amount of time people spend in poor health has increased across England; agrees with the review that these avoidable health inequalities have been exacerbated by cuts to public spending and can be reduced with the right policies; and calls on the Government to end austerity, invest in public health, implement the recommendations of the review, publish public health allocations for this April as a matter of urgency, and bring forward a world-leading health inequalities strategy to take action on the social determinants of health.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d903.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Inequality in health is the worst inequality of all. There is no more serious inequality than knowing that you&#8217;ll die sooner because you&#8217;re badly off.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d903.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;extending healthy life expectancies is a central goal of the Government, and we will move heaven and earth to make it happen.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2020-05-14">14 May</phrase> 2019; Vol. 660, c. 153.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d905.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if health has stopped improving it is a sign that society has stopped improving.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d905.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It usually takes around 5 weeks to get your first payment&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d905.0/14" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;only around a quarter of what leads to longer, healthier lives is&#8230;what happens in hospitals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d908.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;notes that Government is committed to level up outcomes to reduce the health gap between wealthy and deprived areas, and supports the Government&#8217;s commitment to delivering long-term improvements for everyone no matter who they are, where they live or their social circumstances.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d917.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Likely many areas are now offering the bare minimum service with large increases in worker caseloads an inevitability. The overall numbers in treatment have fallen at a similar rate as funding with the largest decreases seen in opiate users (and those in treatment for alcohol only).&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d917.2/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Over 60% of opiate clients have two or more complex needs alongside their drug use&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d919.3/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;What good does it do to treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d919.3/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The past we inherit, the future we build&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d927.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;committed to level up outcomes to reduce the health gap between wealthy and deprived areas, and supports the Government&#8217;s commitment to delivering long-term improvements for everyone no matter who they are, where they live or their social circumstances.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d928.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Work is also under way at a national level to identify solutions to the dental recruitment and retention pressures in NHS dentist services, and to understand and address the constraints of current national NHS dentist contracts&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d929.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;causes of health inequalities are so deep rooted that only a major and wide-ranging programme of public expenditure is capable of altering the pattern.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d933.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;outcomes to reduce the health gap between wealthy and deprived areas&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d936.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the powerful influence of the obesogenic environment&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d936.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;has disproportionately affected socioeconomically disadvantaged children&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d941.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Good health is an indication that a society is thriving and that economic and social and cultural features of a society are working in the best interests of the population&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d944.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if health has stopped improving it is a sign that society has stopped improving.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d946.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Every single person deserves to lead a long and healthy life, no matter who they are, where they live or their social circumstances.&#8221;</p>