Question follow-through · 901017
Social Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve social care.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve social care.
14 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
We are committed to creating a National Care Service and Baroness Casey’s Independent Commission will soon set out recommendations to deliver this. We are also improving support for adult social care, including making available £4.6 billion in additional ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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