Question follow-through · 96521
Maternity Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the removal of ring-fenced funding for maternity services at Integrated Care Board level, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that maternity safety improvements are main
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 30 Dec 2025 · 28 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
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the removal of ring-fenced funding for maternity services at Integrated Care Board level, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that maternity safety improvements are main
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government has instructed the National Health Service to improve maternity services, as part of a drive to improve quality, as a priority in the Medium‑Term Planning Framework.While the ringfence has been removed, the same level of funding is being de...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Women's Health Hubs
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed reductions in Integrated Care Board funding on their ability to establish and run Women’s Health Hubs.
Maternity Services: Equality
4 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on setting a target to reduce maternal health inequalities.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Cancer
16 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Chelmsford to?meet?cancer waiting times?and?ensure people with?cancer receive?timely?care.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust: Cancer
16 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Chelmsford to recruit and?retain?specialist cancer nurses and cancer workforce.
Cancer: Health Services
16 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the National Cancer Plan tackles identity-based disparities in cancer care, including for people from (a) ethnic minority backgrounds, (b) disabled?people?and (
NHS: Staff
16 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department plans to engage key stakeholders on the assumptions underpinning the modelling of workforce numbers in the 10 Year Workforce Plan.
Breast Cancer: Databases
14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to establish a metastatic breast cancer data taskforce to (a) identify barriers to data collection, (b) share best practice and (c) monitor progress on improving data
Health: Screening
14 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the development of national linkable datasets for screening programmes will enable uptake data to be reported by (a) ethnicity and (b) level of deprivation.
Health Services: LGBT+ People
20 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to question 97838, what his planned timetable is for the publication of the LGBT+ health evidence review.
NHS
21 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to undertake the statutory ten-year review of the NHS Constitution.
NHS
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to undertake the statutory ten-year review of the NHS Constitution.
Health Services: LGBT+ People
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to question 97838, what his planned timetable is for the publication of the LGBT+ health evidence review.