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Question follow-through · 27895

Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of violence and aggression against staff working in emergency departments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Sept 2026
Target answer date
14 Sept 2026
Answer
15 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of violence and aggression against staff working in emergency departments.

  2. 14 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    No specific assessment has been made regarding the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s survey. Data on violence in emergency departments is not centrally held, although the NHS Staff Survey results, with questions on violence, are published at the follo...

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