Oral QuestionWomen and Equalities

What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle inequality for disabled people.

Tabled: 7 December 2023Answered: 13 December 2023

Asked by

Cat Smith

LabourLancaster and Wyre

Answering Minister

the Minister for Women and Equalities

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Wes Streeting)

Waiting times are wholly inadequate in our country. That is because the previous Conservative Government took a golden inheritance of the shortest waiting times and the highest patient satisfaction in history and left behind the worst crisis in the NHS’s history. What is more, they accept no responsibility and cannot even bring themselves to say sorry.