Question follow-through · 49220
Health Services and Social Security: Advisory Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of integrating health services with social welfare advice.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of integrating health services with social welfare advice.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
We recognise the importance of integrated health and care services, including social welfare advice. We are committed to moving to a Neighbourhood Health Service, which will reinforce integrated working between the National Health Service, social care, lo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Healthy Start Scheme: North Herefordshire
9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families were in receipt of Healthy Start in North Herefordshire constituency on 9 June 2025.
Preventive Medicine: Finance
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Cancer: Health Services
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Cancer: Diagnosis
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to reduce waiting times for sarcoma diagnosis.
Cancer: Genomics
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether whole genome sequencing will be available on the NHS for all sarcoma patients under the 10 Year Health Plan for England.
NHS: Capital Investment
28 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure capital investment in NHS (a) estate and (b) infrastructure supports improvements in climate resilience.
Maternity Services: Carbon Emissions
28 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' report entitled Green Maternity Report 2025.
Glyphosate: Sanitary Products
29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Women’s Environmental Network's report entitled Blood, Sweat and Pesticides, published in May 2025; and what steps
Hospices and Palliative Care: Finance
4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure a sustainable funding settlement for hospice and palliative care in (a) Herefordshire and (b) the country.
Anaesthetics
4 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of trends in levels of anaesthetic workforce availability on elective surgery waiting times.
Hospital Beds
13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of medically fit patients occupying hospital beds due to delayed discharges.