Question follow-through · 51578
Medical Records: Babies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of routinely (a) recording and (b) matching new fathers’ health records to those of their children.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 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
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of routinely (a) recording and (b) matching new fathers’ health records to those of their children.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has not carried out a recent assessment of the merits of routinely recording and matching new fathers’ health records to those of their children.The Personal Demographics Service (PDS) can record many relationships, including 'mother', 'fat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Gambling: Mental Health Services
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the proposals on gambling outlined in the letter sent to him by the Health and Social Care Committee on 8 May 2025.