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Resident Doctors: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the impact of the analysis that the July and November five day resident doctors’ strikes are estimated to have cost £500 million by the Office for Budget Responsibili

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 2 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 4 Dec 2025
Answer: 5 Jan 2026 · 34 calendar days after tabling

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2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the impact of the analysis that the July and November five day resident doctors’ strikes are estimated to have cost £500 million by the Office for Budget Responsibili
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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5 Jan 2026
Answer published
We stand by the approximate £500 million figure as a reasonable estimate of the combined cost of resident doctor strikes so far this year in July and November 2025. This figure is based on actual costs from July 2025, approximately £240 million, and an in...

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