Question follow-through · 14386
Social Services: Audit
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to undertake a national audit of care needs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to undertake a national audit of care needs.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for assessing individuals’ care and support needs and, where eligible, for meeting those needs. Where individuals do not meet the eligibility threshold, they can get support from their local authority to make their own ar...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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General Practitioners
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Disabled Facilities Grants
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