Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117577

NHS: Conditions of Employment

Tabled: 3 March 2026
Answered: 11 March 2026

Question

Zöe Franklin

Liberal DemocratGuildford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that NHS commissioning ensures equivalent employment practices in outsourced NHS services.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to making work pay and ensuring that outsourced services are delivered in a way that improves quality, gives greater stability and longer-term investment in the workforce, and delivers better value for money as part of the broa...

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