Question follow-through · 49167
Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that carers in the adult social care sector (a) are adequately trained for the range of tasks they undertake, (b) spend the requisite amount of time wi
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
- 7 May 2025 · 8 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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- Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments · 16 Jun 2025
- Medical Treatments · 16 Jun 2025
- Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments · 16 Jun 2025
- Brain: Injuries · 24 Jun 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that carers in the adult social care sector (a) are adequately trained for the range of tasks they undertake, (b) spend the requisite amount of time wi
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to a well-supported adult social care workforce who are recognised as the professionals they are. We have expanded the Care Workforce Pathway and are continuing to fund the Learning Development Support Scheme to help care worke...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to use community pharmacies to support people with (a) asthma and (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to better manage their condition.
Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NICE on considering the potential impact of improved carer wellbeing on the economy in its assessments of the effectiveness of treatments for rare diseases.
Medical Treatments
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS trusts are prepared to deliver new therapies once they enter routine commissioning.
Rare Diseases: Medical Treatments
16 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NICE on feedback from stakeholders on how the impacts on carers are considered in appraisals for rare and ultra-rare conditions.
Brain: Injuries
24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that brain aneurysms are (a) recognised and (b) dealt with (i) in the NHS ten-year plan and (ii) by his Department.
Brain: Injuries
24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on ensuring that (a) patients and (b) families affected by brain aneurysms receive adequate (i) screening, (ii) treatment, (iii) care, (iv) long-term monitoring and
Heart Diseases: Young People
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of funding research on using AI based on the knowledge of expert cardiologists to help interpret ECGs for the diagnosis of yo
Diseases: Medical Treatments
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that NICE appraisal decisions for (a) progressive and (b) degenerative diseases are taken in a timely manner. .
Diseases: Medical Treatments
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the manner in which NICE considers carer-related quality of life in its assessments of treatments for (a) rare, (b) progressive and (c) paediatric diseases.
Diseases: Medical Treatments
2 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the potential impact on carers is taken into account in NICE’s health technology appraisal decisions.
Pharmacy: Closures
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the rate of community pharmacy closures in England.
Pharmacy: Closures
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that patients have timely access to pharmacy services in areas where community pharmacies have closed.