Question follow-through · 55635
NHS Trusts: Subsidiary Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with UNISON in relation to proposals by NHS Trusts in Dorset to create a subsidiary company.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with UNISON in relation to proposals by NHS Trusts in Dorset to create a subsidiary company.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
Contract award decisions in the National Health Service fall directly to individual NHS bodies, who are responsible for running their own procurement exercises. Ministers at the Department do not have general powers in legislation to direct trusts in rela...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Soft Drinks: Taxation
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Mental Health: Bournemouth
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Mental Health Services: Dorset
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Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People Independent Review
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Mental Health Services: Coastal Areas
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