Home Office (including Topical Questions)

MPs question a government minister

MPs will question the Health and Social Care Secretary on departmental policy, service delivery, and current issues affecting the NHS and social care system. Topical questions allow backbenchers to raise urgent or newsworthy matters without advance notice, providing a check on ministerial accountability across both health and social care portfolios.

Health and social care touch every constituency and affect millions of patients, carers, and NHS staff. These oral questions form the primary mechanism for parliamentary scrutiny of the department's performance on waiting times, funding, workforce, and care standards—issues that drive voter concern and election campaigns.