Question follow-through · 33337
Hospitals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) repair hospitals and (b) improve patient safety.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 7 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
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) repair hospitals and (b) improve patient safety.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The safety of National Health Service staff and patients is a top priority for the Government.The NHS was provided with £4.1 billion in operational capital in 2024/25, enabling systems to allocate funding according to local priorities, including hospital ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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