Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy were lowest in the North East for both sexes in 2017-19 and inequalities in life expectancy greatest, with the region experiencing the largest increase in these inequalities since 2010-12. [...] In the English regions, there have been statistically significant increases in inequalities in life expectancy for women in six of the nine (North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East of England, East Midlands, South West), and three for men (North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and East of England). [...] In the four regions of the south and east, seven local authorities saw significant increases in inequalities in female life expectancy (Kensington and Chelsea, Bexley, Guildford, Norwich, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and North Somerset) and one in inequalities in male life expectancy (Cornwall) (10). [...] First, because inequality in life expectancy is related to overall level of life expectancy (Figure 6), reductions in government funding by 2015/6 was also related to levels of inequality in life expectancy within local authorities in 2010-12 - the greater the level of inequalities the greater the reduction in government spending. [...] Second, the efforts of local authority to compensate for reductions in government funding through increasing council tax per head of population in the period 2015/16 to 2019/20 meant that council tax increases by 2019/20 were strongly related to life expectancy levels in 2010-12 – the lower was life expectancy in 2010-12 the larger was in increase in council tax per head of population in 2019/20 –.
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