Question follow-through · 90686
Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what current unbudgeted pressures his Department is aware of within its spending plans.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what current unbudgeted pressures his Department is aware of within its spending plans.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
The 2025 Spending Review was published on 11 June by HM Treasury and sets out departmental budgets for day‑to‑day spending until 2028/29, and until 2029/30 for capital investment. The 2025 Spending Review is available at the following link: https://www.go...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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