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
Independent — North 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 AhmedCommunity 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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