Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of health services for women.”
Tabled: 13 November 2024Answered: 19 November 2024
Asked by
Andy McDonald
Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Mark Ferguson)
The Government have reviewed all 306 active arm’s length bodies, and we have commitments to reform over a third of them, but we will go further. Devolution by default means that we will transfer functions of arm’s length bodies to local leaders or return them to Departments, because all critical decisions should be taken by Ministers who are directly accountable to Parliament and the public.