Question follow-through · 57503

Social Prescribing: Performing Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of comedy within social prescribing.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 11 Jun 2025
Answer: 11 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of comedy within social prescribing.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department recognises the value that social prescribing can play in supporting people’s health and wellbeing. This includes activities such as the creative arts, as well as cultural activities.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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