Question follow-through · 24972

Disability Aids: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will take steps to work with the Lead Ministers for Disability to help ensure disabled children receive specialist equipment in a timely manner.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
27 Jan 2025
Answer
29 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will take steps to work with the Lead Ministers for Disability to help ensure disabled children receive specialist equipment in a timely manner.

  2. 27 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 29 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2024, the Minister for Social Security and Disability announced new Lead Ministers for Disability in every Government department. I am the Lead Minister for Disability for the Department of Health and ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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