Question follow-through · 76855
NHS Trusts: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of regional variations in staff vacancy rates on waiting list lengths in NHS trusts.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of regional variations in staff vacancy rates on waiting list lengths in NHS trusts.
16 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department has not made an assessment and has no plans to make an assessment on the impact of regional variations in staff vacancy rates, the time taken to recruit into nursing roles, or the use of agency and bank staff, on elective waiting list lengt...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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