Question follow-through · 48679

Disability: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that social care reform supports (a) deafblind people and (b) other disabled people with complex needs.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 28 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 30 Apr 2025
Answer: 8 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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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

28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that social care reform supports (a) deafblind people and (b) other disabled people with complex needs.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the challenges facing the adult social care system, and that people are suffering without the care they need or fighting a complicated system just to receive poor quality care.The independent commission into adult social care, ch...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Surgical Mesh Implants: West Midlands

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Arthritis: Health Services

30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the 10 Year Health Plan will help people with arthritis.

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9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to hold (a) NHS and (b) water providers to account for hospital sewage leaks.

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Mental Health Services

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