Question follow-through · 82827
NHS Trusts: English Language
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to NHS trusts on ensuring that (a) reception and (b) administrative staff are proficient in English.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to NHS trusts on ensuring that (a) reception and (b) administrative staff are proficient in English.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
National Health Service trusts are independent bodies and as such have responsibility for their own recruitment policies and for ensuring their appointment procedures are aligned with employment law and good human resources practice.Employers have respons...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
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Yellow Card Scheme
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NHS: Staff
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Genetics: Health Services
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Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
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Refugees: Gaza
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Genetics: Health Services
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