It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward. I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Sir David Evennett) for raising the important issue of public health. The Government fully appreciate and share the commitment to prevention and improving the health of the population highlighted today. Improvements in life expectancy appear to have stalled, with 20% of our lives spent in poor health on average, particularly affecting those in deprived communities who are at far higher risk of poor health. For example, since the soft drinks industry levy came into effect, the average sugar content of drinks has decreased by 43.7%. We also legislated to introduce out-of-home calorie labelling in April 2022 and have put in place regulations to restrict the promotion by volume and location of products high in fat, salt and sugar in supermarkets, which will come into force in October 2022. In June 2021, we confirmed that at the end of 2022 we will introduce both a 9 pm watershed for television advertisements of HFSS products and a restriction of paid-for advertising of HFSS products online. For this financial year, Bexley Council received more than £9 million for the public health grant and an additional funding of £358,000 to tackle obesity and drug addiction. Since the start of the pandemic, we have made more than £12 billion available to local councils to address the costs and impacts of covid-19, with £6 billion non-ringfenced in recognition of local authorities being best placed to decide how to manage major pressures. Bexley's per capita funding is different from other London boroughs, but a per capita basis is not meaningful as it takes no account of different levels of need.