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Health Services: Translation Services

Commons · Question 63455 · Tabled 27 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 9 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list each foreign language where there has been (a) translation and (b) interpretation to facilitate engagement with the proposed NHS 10-Year Health Plan.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 9 Jul 2025

The Change NHS portal was available in English, Urdu, Romanian, Punjabi, and Polish, as these are the five most common languages in England, as reported by the 2021 Census. Participants at 10-Year Health Plan deliberative engagement events were given the ...