Question follow-through · 35948
Social Services: Exploitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to establish a full investigation into exploitation within social care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to establish a full investigation into exploitation within social care.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
We have seen unacceptable increases in unethical practices and exploitation in the adult social care sector. The Government is delivering legislation to improve employment rights, and the Fair Work Agency in the Employment Rights Bill will bring together ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Memory Clinics: Expenditure
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual average integrated care board spend on memory assessment services has been for each year between 2014 and 2024.
Dementia: Diagnosis
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) pilot and (b) support the adoption of new diagnostic tools for dementia (i) including blood tests and (ii) generally.
Dementia: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) expand capacity in dementia diagnostics and (b) facilitate access to new dementia treatments when available.
Health: Screening
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS Health Check digitisation (a) reaches all communities equitably and (b) does not exacerbate health inequalities for dementia.
Dementia
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle dementia cases which could be (a) prevented and (b) delayed by addressing modifiable risk factors.
Alzheimer's Disease: Tomography
10 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of (a) CT and (b) MRI scans for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients treated in temporary care environments.
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of temporary care environments in patient care.
Medicine: Postgraduate Education
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of postgraduate medical training will be carried out in full.
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the recent National Living Wage increase and National Insurance Contributions rise on the financial viability of community equipme
Community Health Services: Medical Equipment
27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support community equipment providers in managing rising operational costs while ensuring continued service provision.