Question follow-through · 9231
Audiology: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate numbers of (a) auditory verbal therapists and (b) other specialist workers for babies, children and young people with speech, language, and co
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequate numbers of (a) auditory verbal therapists and (b) other specialist workers for babies, children and young people with speech, language, and co
17 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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21 Oct 2024
Answer published
NHS Audiology services, including support for non-hearing children, are locally commissioned, and the responsibility for meeting the needs of non-hearing children lies with local National Health Service commissioners.NHS England is supporting the integrat...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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