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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Commons · Question 82775 · Tabled 16 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 27 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the use of temporary escalation spaces in the NHS.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 27 Oct 2025

The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so patients can be treated with dignity.  We are therefore doing everything we can as fast as we can to consign the delivery of care in temporary escalation spaces to the hi...