Question follow-through · 111205
Mental Health Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the safeguards to protect mental health facility staff from patient assaults and subsequent follow-up procedures.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the safeguards to protect mental health facility staff from patient assaults and subsequent follow-up procedures.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2026
Answer published
Everyone working in the National Health Service has a fundamental right to be safe at work. Violence rates in mental health settings are lower than the national average. Individual employers put in place a robust range of measures, including, security, tr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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