Health and Social Care (including Topical Questions)

MPs question a government minister

This is a weekly oral questions session in the House of Commons where MPs quiz the Health and Social Care Secretary on departmental policy, service delivery, and current issues. Topical questions allow MPs to raise urgent, timely matters affecting the NHS and social care sector without advance notice, enabling Parliament to hold the government accountable on pressing health concerns.

Oral questions provide a key parliamentary mechanism for scrutiny of the government's management of the NHS and social care systems, which affect millions of people across the UK. These sessions allow opposition and backbench MPs to challenge policy decisions, highlight service failures, or raise constituent grievances in real-time, directly shaping public and political debate on healthcare.