§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to institute standard and objective means to monitor healthy life expectancy among the population aged over 50 years.
§ Mr. BowisWe have recently commissioned research to help us to measure healthy life expectancy more accurately and to identify the factors we need to target to increase healthy life expectancy among older people. The results will be available early next year.