Question follow-through · 81443
Disease Control: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister is responsible for vulnerable groups and pandemics.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister is responsible for vulnerable groups and pandemics.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
As the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention, responsibility for health inequalities and vulnerable groups as well as pandemic preparedness falls within my Ministerial portfolio.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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