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Written question asked by Luke Evans (Conservative) on Thursday, 17 July 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 21 July 2025. It was answered by Ashley Dalton (Labour) on Friday, 5 September 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Health Services: Reorganisation

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, if he will publish a list of regulatory bodies he plans to merge or abolish.

Answer

The 10 Year Health Plan refers to bodies that are being abolished or merged. None of these are regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission, instead they perform other functions.

As part of the 10 Year Health Plan, we are cutting the number of organisations, bodies and entities overwhelming the National Health Service system and taking focus away from basics of patient care.

The changes we are making will improve quality and safety by making it clear where responsibility and accountability sits at all levels of the system, and making it easier for staff, patients, and users to directly feed into the system to improve quality of care.

However, the 10 Year Health Plan and the Dash Review detail several other organisations that are planned to be abolished or have their functions transferred. These organisations are mentioned in the relevant publications and there are no additional plans to publish a list.

The organisations which are impacted are:

- NHS England;

- the Health Services Safety Investigations Body;

- the National Guardian’s Office;

- Healthwatch England;

- local Healthwatch organisations; and

- Commissioning Support Units.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
68840
Session
2024-26
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2025-0460
Monday, 7 July 2025
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Subjects
Health services Public bodies Regulation Reorganisation
Link
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