Question follow-through · 17617
NHS: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the suggested guidance on single-sex spaces in the NHS drafted by the Darlington Nurses Union.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the suggested guidance on single-sex spaces in the NHS drafted by the Darlington Nurses Union.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met with five nurses from the Darlington Nursing Union last month, to hear about their concerns regarding single-sex spaces for staff in National Health Service hospitals Since the meeti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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