Question follow-through · 40299
Primary Care: Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support primary care to reduce carbon emissions from prescribing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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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
21 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support primary care to reduce carbon emissions from prescribing.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2025
Answer published
In October 2020, the National Health Service published its Net Zero Strategy, in order to become the world’s first health system to commit to reaching net zero emissions, and NHS England is working collaboratively with a range of partners on implementatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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