Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2026 to Question 21074 on DHSC: Equality, whether there is any monitoring by (a) her Department or (b) Cabinet Office on whether her Department’s civil service s arm’s length bodies have complied with the Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Guidance.

Where there is central guidance on any issue that applies across the Civil Service as a whole, each Civil Service arm’s length body is required to comply with it and will be held accountable for any evidence of non-compliance through the normal Civil Service management channels. For equality, diversity, and inclusion expenditure, this would be managed through the Cabinet Office.