Question follow-through · 81857
Clinics: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mobile clinic provision in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 37 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mobile clinic provision in rural areas.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
The integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the planning and commissioning of health services, including mobile clinic services.In doing so ICBs must take into account the needs of their local population, which includes meeting the healthcare ne...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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