Question follow-through · 104587
Health Services: Payments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the decision not to introduce regulations of mandatory disclosure of payments to the healthcare sector under the Health and Care Act 2022.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the decision not to introduce regulations of mandatory disclosure of payments to the healthcare sector under the Health and Care Act 2022.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of transparency and trust in the health system and has outlined its reasons for introducing guidance, rather than legislative measures, in relation to payments made by industry to the healthcare sector. These reaso...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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