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NHS England

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of NHS England on levels of NHS service provision, in the context of (a) the closure of the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders prog

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
15 Sept 2025
Answer
18 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the closure of NHS England on levels of NHS service provision, in the context of (a) the closure of the NHS and Care Volunteer Responders prog

  2. 15 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 18 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Volunteers play an important role supporting and complementing National Health Service services, staff, and patients but they do not replace staff or services. Following the closure of the NHS Volunteer Responders programme, all volunteers have been signp...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Maternity Services: Public Inquiries

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September 2025, what criteria his Department used to decide which NHS Trusts

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: Public Inquiries

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled 14 NHS trusts the focus of national maternity investigation, published on 15 September 2025, which NHS Trusts selected for the maternity investigation we

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: Standards

16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the quality of (a) maternity and (b) neonatal services in each of the 14 NHS Trusts chosen for the maternity and neonatal investigation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pregnancy: Drugs

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of 27 March 2025, Official Report, column 447WH, if he will make an assessment of th

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, published on 21 February 2025, how many urgent appointments each ICB has been asked to

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the press notice entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, published on 21 February 2025, how many of the extra 700,000 urgent dental care appoin

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dentistry: Recruitment

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many posts have been (a) allocated and (b) filled in the dental recruitment incentive scheme, broken down by (i) region, (ii) integrated care board and (iii) in total.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Health: Children

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Big Brush Club on rates of dental decay among children who participated in that scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Health: Children

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) schools, (b) nurseries and (c) early years settings have signed up to the Big Brush Club supervised toothbrushing scheme.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the proportion of urgent dental care appointments purchased by ICBs that were attended by a patient.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Huntington's Disease: Mental Health Services

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure people with Huntington's disease have equitable access to mental health services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Huntington's Disease: Health Services

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what action he is taking to ensure people with Huntington's disease have a single point of contact to coordinate their care.