Question follow-through · 24331
Torbay Hospital
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future of Torbay Hospital.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Department of Health and Social Care: Freedom of Information · 29 Jan 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care: Freedom of Information · 29 Jan 2025
- Emergency Services: Boston and Skegness · 21 Feb 2025
- Death Certificates · 24 Apr 2025
- Ophthalmic Services · 30 Apr 2025
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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
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future of Torbay Hospital.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
My rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, set out a credible and deliverable plan for the new hospital schemes in the New Hospital Programme (NHP) on 20 January 2025, following the conclusion of the review of the NHP. The Plan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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