Question follow-through · 23395

Hospitals and Social Services: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to increase (a) hospital and (b) social care capacity for winter 2024-25.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 13 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 15 Jan 2025
Answer: 22 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to increase (a) hospital and (b) social care capacity for winter 2024-25.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2025
Answer published
December 2024 saw record numbers of people attending accident and emergency, a 7.5% increase on December 2023. Despite this, there were 5% fewer delayed discharges than in December 2023.The Government will tackle delayed discharges by developing local par...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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