Question follow-through · 8354
Parkinson's Disease: Speech and Language Therapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reform the recruitment and retention of the speech and language therapy workforce supporting people with Parkinson’s.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reform the recruitment and retention of the speech and language therapy workforce supporting people with Parkinson’s.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
Decisions on the employment of allied health professionals are a matter for individual National Health Service trusts which manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deli...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Omaveloxolone
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