Question follow-through · 356
Mother and Baby Units: Healthcare Assistants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to increase the ratio of healthcare assistants to midwives in stand-alone midwife-led units maternity units.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 2 Aug 2024 · 16 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to increase the ratio of healthcare assistants to midwives in stand-alone midwife-led units maternity units.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Aug 2024
Answer published
No assessment has been made regarding a policy to increase the ratio of healthcare assistants to midwives in stand-alone midwife-led maternity units.NHS England have committed to ensuring that the right numbers of the right staff are available to provide ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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