Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 75034

Trade Unions: Equality

Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 19 September 2025

Question

Mike Wood

Conservative — Kingswinford and South Staffordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether trade union diversity networks in (a) his department and (b) NHS England are eligible for trade union facility time; and whether people can claim both diversity network time and facility ti

Answer

Karin Smyth
Neither the Department nor NHS England have specific trade union diversity networks.