Question follow-through · 27898
Accident and Emergency Departments: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of recorded incidents of violence and aggression against NHS staff in emergency departments in England in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of recorded incidents of violence and aggression against NHS staff in emergency departments in England in each of the last five years.
10 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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