Question follow-through · 99954
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the workforce modelling used as the basis for the 10 Year Workforce Plan will be independent; and whether the results of that modelling will be independently assessed and tested.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 24 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the workforce modelling used as the basis for the 10 Year Workforce Plan will be independent; and whether the results of that modelling will be independently assessed and tested.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
We have committed to updating workforce modelling which will be set out in and alongside the 10 Year Workforce Plan when published in spring 2026. This will be supported by external scrutiny to independently assess and test it.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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