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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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 18 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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