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<p>The Government carefully considers how its policies will affect communities across
the country. For example, each year, we conduct an assessment of the equality impacts
of the annual Local Government Finance Settlement and publish a statement on the Gov
UK website. As the equality statement makes clear, this year the Government made available
an increase in overall Core Spending Power of 4.6% in cash terms and ensured that
no local authority saw a reduction in Core Spending Power compared to 2020-21, which
benefitted all those with protected characteristics. These increases build on the
largest year-on-year increase in spending power in a decade in 2020-21.</p><p>Reducing
health inequalities will also be a core aim of the new Office of Health Promotion
(OHP). The OHP will systematically tackle the top preventable risk factors, improving
the public's health and narrowing health inequalities. It will set health improvement
priorities for government, and will work with the whole of government, the NHS, local
government, industry and wider partners to deliver on these priorities.</p>
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