Question follow-through · 11875
Health Services: Statistics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) ensure regular public data releases and (b) improve the timeliness of data available.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) ensure regular public data releases and (b) improve the timeliness of data available.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department is strongly committed to upholding the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, and its three constituent pillars of trustworthiness, quality, and value. As such, the Department is committed to releasing timely data at a frequency that mee...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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