A question on #SpeechAndLanguageTherapy tabled by Dr Luke Evans on 24-03-2025 has been answered by Stephen Kinnock.

Heading: Speech and Language Therapy
Question ID: 1787639
UIN: 40611
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-24
Asking Member ID: 4781
Asking Member display name: Dr Luke Evans
Asking Member handle: drlukeevans
Asking Member Twitter reference: @drlukeevans
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to speech and language therapy.
Is named day: false
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Date answered: 2025-04-09
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4359
Answering Member display name: Stephen Kinnock
Answering Member handle: skinnock
Answering Member Twitter reference: @skinnock
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Answer text: We inherited a broken National Health Service with waiting times across all areas unacceptably high. In his investigation into the NHS in England, Lord Darzi highlighted the crisis in children’s community services with too many children waiting too long f...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true