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Question follow-through · 32209

Health and Care Act 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expediting the implementation of section 95 of the Health and Care Act 2022 on the rights of disabled people.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
26 Feb 2025
Answer
18 Mar 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of expediting the implementation of section 95 of the Health and Care Act 2022 on the rights of disabled people.

  2. 26 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Following commencement of the regulations made under the Health and Care Act 2022, new arrangements will come into effect to make information standards mandatory. Existing standards will need to go through a new process to become mandatory, and once a sta...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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