Question follow-through · 43728

NHS: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS England has made on becoming the first health service in the world to achieve carbon net zero; and whether this work will continue in the new health service structure.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS England has made on becoming the first health service in the world to achieve carbon net zero; and whether this work will continue in the new health service structure.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The National Health Service has made substantial progress in supporting the Government’s Net Zero commitments. These include securing over £1.2 billion in funding through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, the NHS-wide decommissioning of desflurane...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to incentivise the recruitment and retention of clinical academics.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department plans to take to incentivise the recruitment and retention of clinical academics.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Staff

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to establish a cross-departmental ministerial taskforce with the Department for Education to support workforce planning between the higher education sector and the health service.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on the number of research partnerships with universities in (a) public health, (b) clinical trials, (c) innovation and

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medicine: Research

28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of clinical academics.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to establish a national anonymous reporting mechanism for sexual misconduct in the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS Trusts: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish a roadmap outlining how NHS trust organisations will implement the national sexual misconduct policy framework.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service: Training

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure trauma-informed education and training for all staff involved in fitness-to-practice cases within the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to mandate (a) NHS trust organisations, (b) health boards and (c) professional regulators to collect and publish annual data on sexual misconduct cases.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage medical schools to sign the NHS England sexual safety in healthcare organisational charter.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with professional regulators to ensure consistent management of sexual misconduct cases.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service on the revision of sanctions banding for sexual misconduct cases.