Question follow-through · 1391

Physiotherapy: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the contribution of physiotherapy services to supporting people to (a) remain in or (b) return to work.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 14 May 2026
Target answer date: 18 May 2026
Answer: 26 May 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the contribution of physiotherapy services to supporting people to (a) remain in or (b) return to work.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are one of the leading conditions reported by people who are economically inactive due to long-term sickness in the UK, as shown in statistics available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-em...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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