Question follow-through · 97806
Parkinson's Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of neurologists with specialist training in Parkinson's disease.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- 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
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of neurologists with specialist training in Parkinson's disease.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
While the Department does not hold data specifically on the number of Parkinson’s specialist staff in England, we do hold data on the number of doctors working in the wider specialty of neurology. As of August 2025, there were 2,010 full time equivalent (...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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