Question follow-through · 46325
Department of Health and Social Care: Festivals and Special Occasions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) religious and (b) cultural holidays are observed by their Department.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department is in line with the Civil Service approach in offering employees eight public bank holidays plus one privilege day each year, pro-rated for part-time workers. Of these, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Christmas Day are deemed religious holid...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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