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Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the Department retains the necessary expertise across healthcare when NHS England is abolished.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 8 Jun 2026
Answer: 15 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline

3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the Department retains the necessary expertise across healthcare when NHS England is abolished.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises that delivering reform and maintaining performance depends on retaining the right skills, knowledge, and experience that exists across both our current workforces in NHS England and the Department. The changes proposed are not a ...

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