Question follow-through · 81557

Maternity Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital funding for maternity and neonatal services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
15 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital funding for maternity and neonatal services.

  2. 15 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    We recognise that repairing and rebuilding our healthcare estate is a vital part of the Government's ambition to create a National Health Service that is fit for the future. As a first step towards improving our maternity and neonatal estate, we are inves...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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