Question follow-through · 96094
NHS: Negligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the report into the cost of clinical negligence being prepared by David Lock KC.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the report into the cost of clinical negligence being prepared by David Lock KC.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The rising costs of clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service in England are of great concern to the Government. Costs have more than doubled in the last 10 years and are forecast to continue rising, putting further pressure on NHS fi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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