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Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 26 October 2010.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Public Accounts Committee on

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Members present

Margaret Hodge (Chair) Mrs Anne McGuire

Mr Richard Bacon Austin Mitchell

Stephen Barclay Nick Smith

Jackie Doyle-Price Ian Swales

Matthew Hancock James Wharton

Chris Heaton-Harris

Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, Robert Prideaux, Director, Parliamentary Liaisons and Karen Taylor, Director, National Audit Office were in attendance.

Paula Diggle, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was in attendance.

REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL

Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation (HC 186)

CONTENTS

Witnesses: Richard Douglas, Interim Permanent Secretary/Chief Operating Officer, Department of Health, Dr Ruth Hussey, Regional Director of Public Health/Senior Medical Director for NHS North West and DH North West, and Mark Davies, Director, Health Inequalities and Partnerships, Department of Health.

Question Numbers:

1-137

Supplementary memorandum from the Department of Health