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Healthwatch: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 May 2026
Target answer date
2 Jun 2026
Answer
15 Jun 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch.

  2. 2 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The potential savings from abolishing Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch are dependent future policy decisions regarding the approach taken to collecting user experiences post-abolition. Our intention is to place responsibility for listening to pat...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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