Question follow-through · 57398

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides unconscious bias training; and whether his Department plans to provide unconscious bias training to staff from NHS England when that organisation is abolished.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
10 Jun 2025
Answer
12 Jun 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

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department provides unconscious bias training; and whether his Department plans to provide unconscious bias training to staff from NHS England when that organisation is abolished.

  2. 10 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Department aligns itself to the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion approach to learning and to the use of evidence led interventions. The Department does not provide unconscious bias training to its staff, and there are no current plans t...

Open official record

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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Blood: Contamination

11 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS England has made on sharing data about patients who (a) received a blood transfusion before 1996 and (b) have tested positive for (i) HIV and (ii) Hepatitis C with the Independent

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: Essex

24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve (a) safety and (b) other standards in maternity services at (i) Southend and (ii) Basildon Hospital.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

National Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce

24 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national investigation into NHS maternity and neonatal services announced on 23 June 2025 will be empowered to recommend (a) regulatory and (b) structural reform of the Care Quality Com

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Crown Representatives: Political Activities

25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what declarations of political (a) activity and (b) interests were made by each Health Crown Representative.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Trade Unions

25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether changes have been made to the NHS terms and conditions of service for Agenda for Change in relation to trade unions since 4 July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Antimicrobial Resistance and Cancer: Health Education

26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Cabinet Office FOI disclosure FOI2025/05753 of 12 June 2025, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of cancelling the (a) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department of Health and Social Care: Staff

26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to install customer experience machines in his Department to measure staff morale.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department of Health and Social Care: Permanent Secretaries

26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 52906 on Department of Health and Social Care: Permanent Secretaries, whether she has been employed under the terms of the model permanent secretar

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Mental Health Services

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients who pursue non-NHS ADHD treatment are not disadvantaged in accessing (a) ongoing and (b) future NHS treatment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Diagnosis

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) ICBs and (b) GP practices on supporting patients with private ADHD diagnoses to transition into NHS care.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Drugs

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on the adequacy of the consistency of shared care prescribing arrangements for ADHD medication in each Integrated Care Board.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Children

11 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the feasibility of allowing general practitioners to initiate ADHD diagnostic referrals for school-age children.