Question follow-through · 91043
NHS: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 77546 on NHS: Strikes, whether (a) paid and (b) unpaid trade union facility time can be used for NHS staff who are trade union representatives
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 18 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 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2025 to Question 77546 on NHS: Strikes, whether (a) paid and (b) unpaid trade union facility time can be used for NHS staff who are trade union representatives
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
It is for each National Health Service employer and representatives of locally recognised trades unions to agree in partnership to local arrangements and procedures on time off and facilities that are appropriate in local circumstances and whether that ti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Tobacco
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the banning of cigarette filters, in the context of the upcoming eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Health Services: Weather
17 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the early flu season on corridor care, hospital capacity, and patient outcomes.
Hospitals: Standards
19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the latest report on Corridor Care from the APPG on Emergency Care, what plans his department has to tackle delayed discharges.
Hospital Beds
19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his department is making available for trusts to help reduce bed occupancy to the RCEM recommended level of 85% occupancy.
Hospitals: Standards
19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department will put in place constitutional standards for hospital discharges.
Smoking
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of banning cigarette filters on smoking prevalence.
Pharmacy
27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in the APPG on Pharmacy’s report entitled The Future of Community Pharmacy in England, published
Pharmacy: Finance
27 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding for community pharmacies; and whether there are plans for a long-term, inflation-linked funding settlement for the sector.
NHS: Negligence
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the findings of David Lock KC’s review into clinical negligence costs.
NHS: Negligence
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in the National Audit Office’s report entitled Costs of clinical negligence, published on 17 Octo
NHS: Negligence
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of legal costs associated with lower value clinical negligence claims.
Hospices: Finance
18 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department plans to review the level of statutory funding provided to hospices that currently rely heavily on charitable donations to deliver core services.