Question follow-through · 5194
Health Services and Social Services: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance will be issued to Integrated Care Boards and local authorities on how to deliver independent and inclusive engagement with local communities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance will be issued to Integrated Care Boards and local authorities on how to deliver independent and inclusive engagement with local communities.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
On behalf of my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Department will set the direction, issuing clear guidance to integrated care boards and local authorities on obtaining and actioning the views of local people on health...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
10 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to age-appropriate inpatient mental health care for children and young people.
Funerals: Regulation
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will create a statutory regulator to oversee the funeral sector.
Funerals: Standards
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing minimum standards for the funeral sector.
Funerals: Regulation
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential funding models for any future regulation of the funeral sector.
Medical Examiners
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Medical Examiners: Death Certificates
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Medical Examiners
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Medical Examiners: Death Certificates
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