Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 97488

Speech and Language Therapy: Children

Tabled: 5 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Dan Norris

IndependentNorth East Somerset and Hanham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on reducing waiting times for children requiring speech and language therapy.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Community health services, including children’s speech and language therapy, are locally commissioned to enable systems to best meet the needs of their communities.For 2026/27 we have asked systems to actively manage long waits for community health servic...

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