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Maternity Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Midwives' campaign entitled Safe staffing = safe care, January 2026, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing multi-year funding throu

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
28 Jan 2026
Answer
2 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Midwives' campaign entitled Safe staffing = safe care, January 2026, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing multi-year funding throu

  2. 28 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will build on the 10-Year Health Plan to set...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Maternity Services: Staff

11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many responses were received to the staff survey conducted by the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation team that closed on 9 March 2026; how many NHS trusts in England were represented

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: Staff

11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation team has held during its evidence gathering with a) frontline NHS maternity staff and b) staff representative organisations.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Maternity Services: Staff

11 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the staff survey conducted by the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation team included all maternity and neonatal care professions, including maternity support workers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners

25 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his department ensures GPs retain telephone and reception facilities to book appointments at GP clinics.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners

25 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department monitors the different methods by which patients book appointments to see a GP in England.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Breast Cancer

7 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the gap between breast cancer outcomes in the most and least deprived areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schizophrenia: Mental Health Services

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what outcome measures NHS England uses to assess the quality of care provided to people living with schizophrenia; and whether her Department plans to strengthen the use of outcome-focused metrics