Question follow-through · 25000
Medical Records: Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of not knowing the medical history of patients who have been adopted on those people.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 14 Sept 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her department has made of the potential impact of not knowing the medical history of patients who have been adopted on those people.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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14 Sept 2026
Answer published
The government recognises the importance of ensuring that clinicians can take account of the impact of adoption where relevant. Alongside the government’s apology on 2 July 2026 for historic forced adoption practices in England, the government committed t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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