Question follow-through · 25147

NHS Trusts: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional resources to healthcare trusts to enable them to bring outsourced services back in-house.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 20 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 22 Jan 2025
Answer: 30 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional resources to healthcare trusts to enable them to bring outsourced services back in-house.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
Responsibility for spending decisions rests with individual National Health Service trusts. As public bodies, NHS trusts should maintain the highest standards of rigour, value for money and propriety in the use of public funding. All spending must contrib...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of shingles.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Food: Advertising

5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to introduce legislation on advertising restrictions for foods that are high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Infant Foods: Salt and Sugar

5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to issue guidance to industry on steps to reduce (a) sugar and (b) salt in baby and toddler foods.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Healthy Start Scheme

5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of uto-enroling eligible families to the Healthy Start scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Long Covid

10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he expects ICBs to take to support people with long covid.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dentistry: Migrant Workers

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the processes in place for dentists from overseas who wish to set up in (a) private practice and (b) the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professions: Private Sector

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for health professionals to spend at least three years in the NHS following training before they can practice priva

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Private Sector

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring private health providers to pay a fee back to the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health: Disadvantaged

25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to assess (a) the social determinants of ill health and (b) the measures necessary to address any causes.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professionals: Unemployment

3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of (a) unemployment and (b) underemployment among healthcare professionals.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professions: Unemployment

3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential causes of (a) unemployment and (b) underemployment among qualified healthcare professionals.