Question follow-through · 62861
Social Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include (a) national commissioning standards for adult social care, (b) assurance and (c) oversight of adult social care commissioning in the National Care Service.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include (a) national commissioning standards for adult social care, (b) assurance and (c) oversight of adult social care commissioning in the National Care Service.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
We have launched an independent commission into adult social care, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey. The commission will build a national consensus to create a National Care Service that is productive, preventative, and that gives people who draw on care,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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