Question follow-through · 12648

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide additional funding to (a) community musculoskeletal services and (b) physiotherapy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 8 Nov 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide additional funding to (a) community musculoskeletal services and (b) physiotherapy.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of improving health for the 20 million people in the United Kingdom who live with a musculoskeletal condition. This forms a key part of the Government’s mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Diets: Health Education

8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the provision of advice on plant-based diets by clinicians in primary care settings on (a) achieving the aim in the NHS Long Term Plan of su

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners: Labour Turnover

8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a National GP Retention Strategy backed by ring-fenced funding.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Primary Care: Capital Investment

8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Lord Darzi's Independent investigation of the NHS in England, published on 12 September 2024, what steps his Department is taking to support integrated care boards to increase cap

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

GP Surgeries: Repairs and Maintenance

8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 2.71 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October, what support his Department plans to give to GP practices unable to access the fund for GP surgery upgrades.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anaesthetics: Training

12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the number of medical speciality training places (a) in total and (b) in anaesthesia.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anaesthetics: Vacancies

12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of anaesthetic workforce shortages on the NHS’s ability to tackle the elective backlog.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anaesthetics: Recruitment

12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of anaesthetists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Anaesthetists and Doctors: Resignations

12 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the percentage of (a) doctors and (b) anaesthetists preparing to leave the profession; and what steps he is taking to improve retention.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospices: Finance

4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what procedure central government funding is allocated to institutions providing hospice care.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mpox: Disease Control

4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor the rise in cases in the more spreadable variant of mpox now detected in the UK.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation

17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expedite implementation of the recommendations from the Hughes report, published on 7 February 2024; and whether he plans to prioritise establishment of (a) interim

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Obesity: Children

19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent childhood obesity.