Average life expectancy at birth in England has been increasing for men and women and is currently around its highest ever. However, improvements in life expectancy have slowed for both males and females since 2011, and average life expectancy in England is currently stable.<\/p>
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The Department published a vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health in November 2018 which set out an ambition for everyone to enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035 and to reduce the gap between the richest and poorest. Later this year we plan to publish a prevention Green Paper which will set out cross-Government plans for prevention in greater detail.<\/p>
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We are working across Government and with partners nationally and locally to deal with the conditions that make people ill in the first place. We already have world leading programmes for example on childhood obesity and tobacco control, prevention of diabetes and heart disease. We now need to go further to make sure we are targeting our efforts where the need is greatest.<\/p>
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The NHS Long Term Plan sets out new funded action the National Health Service will take to strengthen its contribution to prevention and health inequalities. All major national programmes and every local area across England will be required to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and 10 years.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4065", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Thurrock"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jackie Doyle-Price"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-04-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "237778"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-04-01T15:44:19.127Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-03-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Life Expectancy"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in life expectancy over the last ten years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4425", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Stevens"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"} ], "uin" : "237777"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105726", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105726/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Average life expectancy at birth in England has been increasing for men and women and is currently around its highest ever. However, improvements in life expectancy have slowed for both males and females since 2011, and average life expectancy in England is currently stable.<\/p>
<\/p>
The Department published a vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health in November 2018 which set out an ambition for everyone to enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035 and to reduce the gap between the richest and poorest. Later this year we plan to publish a prevention Green Paper which will set out cross-Government plans for prevention in greater detail.<\/p>
<\/p>
We are working across Government and with partners nationally and locally to deal with the conditions that make people ill in the first place. We already have world leading programmes for example on childhood obesity and tobacco control, prevention of diabetes and heart disease. We now need to go further to make sure we are targeting our efforts where the need is greatest.<\/p>
<\/p>
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out new funded action the National Health Service will take to strengthen its contribution to prevention and health inequalities. All major national programmes and every local area across England will be required to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and 10 years.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4065", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Thurrock"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jackie Doyle-Price"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-04-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "237777"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-04-01T15:44:19.177Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-03-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Life Expectancy"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to close the life expectancy gap between socio-economic groups.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4425", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Stevens"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"} ], "uin" : "237778"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105728", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105728/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Home Office publication https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-firearms-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2017-to-march-2018<\/a> This information is not held by the MoJ. Police Officers can perform a variety of roles in assisting Her Majesty\u2019s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) establishments ranging from Scenes of Crime preservation to Perimeter Security.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions (a) police officers and (b) other additional support has had to be brought in to prisons in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105731", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Wales Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105731/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Leaving the EU with a deal remains the Government\u2019s top priority. This has not changed. However, the Government is continuing with our no deal preparations to ensure the country is prepared for every eventuality. It is the responsible thing to do.<\/p> The UK Government\u2019s analysis shows that under the White paper proposals GVA for Wales will be 8.1 percentage points higher than in the no deal scenario.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what forecasts the Government has made of the potential effect on the Welsh economy of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105238", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1105238/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department\u2019s most recent figures on the levels of homophobic bullying in schools come from our omnibus surveys of school staff and pupils, parents and carers. The school snapshot survey 2016/17 interviewed senior leaders and teachers, and showed that 14% of those interviewed had seen homophobic or biphobic bullying either sometimes or often in the previous 12 months. This publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-snapshot-survey-winter-2017<\/a>.<\/p> This is similar to the results from the teacher voice omnibus 2015/16, which showed that 13% had seen homophobic or biphobic bullying sometimes. The publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-voice-omnibus-november-2016-survey-dfe-questions<\/a>.<\/p> In the pupil and parent or carer omnibus survey 2016/17, 10% of pupils reported that they had been bullied in the past year because they are, or someone says they are, gay, lesbian or bisexual; 4% had been bullied daily, weekly, or monthly. The same survey conducted in 2017/18 shows a similar pattern with 13% of pupils reported that they had been bullied in the past year because they are, or someone says they are, gay, lesbian or bisexual; 6% had been bullied daily, weekly, or monthly. The publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupils-and-their-parents-or-carers-omnibus-wave-1-survey<\/a>.<\/p>
presents statistics on the number of operations in which armed officers were deployed by the 43 Home Office police forces for the financial years ending March 2009 to March 2018. The data can be found in table 1 of the publication tables.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total number of incidents have been where firearms officers were deployed by Police Forces in England and Wales in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jo Stevens"}
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