Question follow-through · 129642
Care Workers: English Language
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to frontline adult social care workers in England; and whether his Department, or any relevant regulator, has conducted audits or assess
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what minimum English language proficiency requirements apply to frontline adult social care workers in England; and whether his Department, or any relevant regulator, has conducted audits or assess
27 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
Providers registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are required to deploy enough suitably qualified, competent, and experienced staff and only employ 'fit and proper' staff who are able to provide care and treatment appropriate to their role, as ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record data on the volume of meat produced from animals slaughtered with stunning and without stunning, disaggregated by slaughter method.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record Official Veterinarian and Official Auxiliary supervision time associated with stunned and non‑stunned slaughter separately.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record inspection, enforcement activity and associated costs by slaughter method, including stunned and non‑stunned slaughter.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record and publish animal welfare non‑compliances disaggregated by slaughter method, including stunned and non‑stunned slaughter.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absence of routinely collected data disaggregated by slaughter method on the ability of the Food Standards Agency and the Department to assess animal welfare outcomes, regulatory burdens, enforcement effectiveness, and cost effectiveness.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, whether he plans to review the Service Level Agreement between the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Welsh Government and the Food Standards Agency so as to assess inspection, monitoring and enforcement activity separately for stunned and non‑stunned slaughter.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Service Level Agreement’s treatment of all slaughter methods as a single category on the adequacy of the evidence base to evaluate differences in inspection requirements, regulatory costs, and animal welfare outcomes between stunned and non‑stunned slaughter.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2026 to Question 126870, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Service Level Agreement’s treatment of all slaughter methods as a single category on Parliament’s ability to scrutinise regulatory proportionality, inspection burdens, enforcement activity, and animal welfare outcomes in relation to stunned and non‑stunned slaughter.
Slaughterhouses
28 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what scientific and evidential base the Department relies upon when assessing and comparing animal welfare outcomes between non‑stun slaughter and carbon‑dioxide gas stunning, including the types of (a) studies, (b) data, and (c) expert advice considered.
Slaughterhouses
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record data on the volume of meat produced from animals slaughtered with stunning and wit
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19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 126871, if he will require the Food Standards Agency to record Official Veterinarian and Official Auxiliary supervision time associated with stun
Slaughterhouses
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