Question follow-through · 47591
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support NHS Trusts to use existing estate and equipment for insourced clinical activity during off-peak hours.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support NHS Trusts to use existing estate and equipment for insourced clinical activity during off-peak hours.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government supports efforts to utilise National Health Service capacity out of hours and over weekends, where it is a cost-effective and sustainable means of delivering additional activity. The most cost-effective route to do this is best determined a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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