Question follow-through · 81052

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent patients being treated in (a) corridors, (b) converted office spaces, (c) gyms and (d) other inappropriate spaces in winter 2025-26.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
22 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent patients being treated in (a) corridors, (b) converted office spaces, (c) gyms and (d) other inappropriate spaces in winter 2025-26.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    We are doing everything we can as fast as we can to tackle and eliminate corridor care. The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so patients can be treated with dignity. Our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan, publishe...

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