Question follow-through · 101191
NHS: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is being done to support disabled people working in the NHS.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 19 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
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is being done to support disabled people working in the NHS.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
Local employers across the National Health Service have arrangements in place for supporting disabled staff including occupational health provision, employee support programmes, and a focus on healthy working environments.Employers have a legal duty under...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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