Question follow-through · 12175
Health Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve public health services focusing on (a) smoking cessation, (b) drug and alcohol and (c) children's health.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve public health services focusing on (a) smoking cessation, (b) drug and alcohol and (c) children's health.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to improving public health as part of delivering a shift from sickness to prevention. As part of this, the Public Health Grant funds a range of preventative interventions across the country, including local authority-led stop s...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dental Services: Finance
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of an increase in employers national insurance contributions on dental practices' finances.
Health: Charities
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with health charities on the potential impact of increases in levels of employers' national insurance contributions on those charities.
Vaccination
12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help promote UK vaccine development.
Hospices
2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospices there were in England in each year since 2015; and how many of those received Government funding in each of those years.
Hospices: Expenditure
2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much Government funding has been provided to hospices in each year since 2015.
Hospices: Expenditure
2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the mean payment to each Government funded hospice was in each year since 2015.
Hospitals: Strikes
4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the potential impact of hospital facilities staff strikes on patient wellbeing.
Hospitals: Strikes
4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) end and (b) prevent strike action by hospital facilities staff.
Cancer: Health Services
9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question Question 8906 on cancer and with reference to the Plan for Change: Milestones for mission-led government, CP 1210, published on 5 December 2024
Kidney Diseases: Medical Treatments
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase uptake of SGLT2 inhibitor treatments for people with chronic kidney disease.
Kidney Diseases: Medical Treatments
10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to SGLT2 inhibitor treatments for people with chronic kidney disease from underserved communities.