Question follow-through · 111227
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will respond to Question 106613 of 16 January 2026 regarding the timely delivery of NHS mail to patients.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 47 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
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will respond to Question 106613 of 16 January 2026 regarding the timely delivery of NHS mail to patients.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 February 2026 to Question 106613.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue guidance to NHS commissioners to help ensure community eyecare services are commissioned across England to help improve equality in access to care.
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10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help ensure that all patients in England have access to Minor Eye Conditions Services (MECS) and Community Urgent Eyecare Services (CUES).
Pharmacy: Business Rates and Employers' Contributions
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to mitigate the impact of upcoming living wage, national insurance and business rates changes on community pharmacies.
Pharmacy: Finance
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided to community pharmacies through the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework in real terms in each year since 2016.
Pharmacy: Training
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of foundation pharmacists beginning their training in 2025 had been assigned a Designated Prescribing Practitioner.
Coronavirus: Vaccination
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of covid vaccinations were administered by community pharmacies in the winter 2025-26 programme.
Hospitals: Standards
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has shared a definition of corridor care to (a) NHS trusts and (b) ICBs.
Hospitals: Standards
12 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish data on the numbers of patients receiving corridor care in NHS hospitals before the end of the financial year.
Hospitals: Standards
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Palantir: Contracts
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice he has received from officials on the value for money of the contract with Palantir for the NHS Federated Data Platform.