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

LabourStroud

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 Dalton
The 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.