Question follow-through · 48744
Hearing Impairment: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to NHS services for deaf people.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 9 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
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- Dermatology: Kent · 18 Jun 2025
- Members: Correspondence · 14 Jul 2025
- Maternity Services: Inquiries · 14 Jul 2025
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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 help improve access to NHS services for deaf people.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning services to meet the needs of their local population, including deaf people.Under the Equality Act (2010), health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Ambulance Services: Tunbridge Wells
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Dermatology: Kent
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Members: Correspondence
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Maternity Services: Inquiries
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Members: Correspondence
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Health Professions: Training
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