Question follow-through · 98565
Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the commitment to end the discharge of newborn babies into bed and breakfast accommodation or other unsuitable shared housing applies to all famil
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 44 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
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the commitment to end the discharge of newborn babies into bed and breakfast accommodation or other unsuitable shared housing applies to all famil
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government has committed to ending the practice of discharging newborn babies into bed and breakfast or other unsuitable shared accommodation through the Child Poverty Strategy. We are working closely across Government, including with Home Office, to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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