Question follow-through · 74283

Health Services: North East Somerset and Hanham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress on reducing NHS waiting lists in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

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
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
9 Sept 2025 · 7 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. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress on reducing NHS waiting lists in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    As set out in the Plan for Change, we have committed to return to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by March 2029. We provided additional investment in the Autu...

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

NHS: ICT

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) electronic patient records and (b) associated systems in the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Carers: North East Somerset and Hanham

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support family carers in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Royal United Hospital and Southmead Hospital: Waiting Lists

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing backlogs at (a) Royal United Hospital Bath and (b) Southmead Hospital.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Hospices

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support hospices to provide high quality end-of-life care.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Integrated Care Boards

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will take steps to make Integrated Care Boards coterminous with strategic authorities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: North East Somerset and Hanham

17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to strengthen maternity and neonatal care for people in North East Somerset & Hanham.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Diagnosis

17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his department is making on its target to reduce the time taken for cancer diagnoses.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners: North East Somerset and Hanham

17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress is being made to improve North East Somerset & Hanham patient access to GPs.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Menopause: North East Somerset and Hanham

17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress is being made to ensure women in North East Somerset & Hanham have access to menopause treatments on the NHS.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cardiovascular Diseases: North East Somerset and Hanham

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease in primary care in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Speech and Language Therapy: Children

5 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing waiting times for children requiring speech and language therapy.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Staff

11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to accelerate the pay review process so that NHS staff in North East Somerset and Hanham constituency receive uplifts nearer the start of the financial year.