Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 71533
Medical Treatments: Gaza
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 29 September 2025
Question
Dr Simon Opher
Labour — Stroud
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that prioritisation for (a) medical evacuation and (b) treatment of children from Gaza is based solely on (i) clinical urgency and (ii) medical need.
Answer
Ashley DaltonThe Government is working urgently to get some of the critically ill and injured children medically evacuated from Gaza.I refer the hon. Member to Written Statement HCWS899 by my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.