Question follow-through · 8597
NHS: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to take steps to reduce the discrepancies in the UK’s health spending relative to other countries in North West Europe.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to take steps to reduce the discrepancies in the UK’s health spending relative to other countries in North West Europe.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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16 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to properly funding the National Health Service. However, money alone will not be enough, and it must come with reform. As Lord Darzi’s report sets out, health system models in other countries where user charges, like social or...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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