Question follow-through · 91918
Opioids: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will expand substitution therapy interventions for those with opioid dependency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 7 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
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will expand substitution therapy interventions for those with opioid dependency.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for commissioning drug and alcohol treatment services according to local need, and this includes the provision of opioid substitution treatment such as methadone and both oral and long-acting injectable buprenorphine.On 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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