Question follow-through · 30391
Speech and Language Therapy: Health Professions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce speech and language therapy workforce shortages.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce speech and language therapy workforce shortages.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
We want to remove the barriers to training as a speech and language therapist (SLT), which is why eligible SLT students can get a non-repayable grant of £5,000 a year through the NHS Learning Support Fund. Further financial support is also available for c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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