Question follow-through · 23008
Speech and Language Therapy: Merseyside
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to specialist speech and language therapy services for children in (a) Merseyside and (b) Knowsley constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to specialist speech and language therapy services for children in (a) Merseyside and (b) Knowsley constituency.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department regularly monitors waiting lists for community services, including speech and language therapy, and is committed to reducing long waits and improving timely access to community health services, including for speech and language therapy serv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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