Question follow-through · 116010
Social Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the complaints signposting available to those who self-fund their social care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 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 complaints signposting available to those who self-fund their social care.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2026
Answer published
By law, all health and social care services must have a procedure for dealing efficiently with complaints, and anyone who has seen or experienced poor-quality care has the right to complain to the organisation that provided or paid for the care.If an indi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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