Question follow-through · 18179
Health Visitors: Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that health visitors should make routine visits to families with babies that are living in temporary accommodation.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 7 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
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that health visitors should make routine visits to families with babies that are living in temporary accommodation.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children. The child health workforce, which includes health visiting teams, is central to how we support all families to give their child the best start in life. Health visiting teams pro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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General Practitioners: Temporary Accommodation
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Neurodiversity: Diagnosis
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for (a) autistic and (b) ADHD diagnostic assessments in the Cheshire and Merseyside area.
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Capital Investment
12 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the level of capital investment required for Warrington and Halton hospital campus sites.
Halton Haven Hospice and Hospice of the Good Shepherd
16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take additional steps to support (a) Halton Haven and (b) Good Shepard Hospice in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
Health Services: Runcorn and Helsby
6 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce NHS waiting lists in Runcorn and Helsby constituency.
Rehabilitation: Health Services
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Disabled Facilities Grants
7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the local disabled facilities grants.
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Prostate Cancer: Screening
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
Drugs and Pharmacy
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.
Palliative Care: Health Professions
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of palliative care specialists available in the care system.