Committees

Health impact of pensioner poverty: MPs to take evidence from Marmot Review author

25 April 2025

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, the author of a 2010 review that warned of rising health inequalities if relative poverty was not addressed, will give evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee as part of its Pensioner Poverty inquiry.

His 2020 follow-up review showed a widening life-expectancy gap over the intervening decade and called for a national strategy on ageing.

MPs on the Committee will also hear evidence from health professionals and advocacy groups on the impact of poverty on the health of older people and methods to improve health outcomes.

Witnesses

Panel 1 from 09.30:

  • Sir Michael G. Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology, University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equality.

Panel 2 from 10.15 (approx.)

  • Dr David Attwood, General Practitioner.

Panel 3 from 10.35 (approx.)

  • Dr Ruth Law, Honorary Secretary British Geriatric Society, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine, Whittington Health NHS Trust;
  • David Finch, Assistant Director of the Healthy Lives Team, Health Foundation;
  • Toby North, Head of Public Affairs, Marie Curie.

Further information

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