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Public Health: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to innovate the delivery of public health services in rural areas.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
27 Feb 2025
Answer
7 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to innovate the delivery of public health services in rural areas.

  2. 27 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Upper tier local authorities have a statutory duty to take steps to improve the health of local people. Under this duty, local authorities commission a range of public health services and are responsible for determining the most effective approaches to th...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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