Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff network events took place in his Department in May 2025; and what the names of those events were.

Staff networks are collaborative volunteer networks, organised by staff themselves rather than the Department.

The Department had a total of seven staff network events that took place in May 2025. This number represents events led by the networks and does not include any scheduled meetings that are normally restricted to their members. The names of the events are listed as follows:

- Mental Health Awareness week: lived experiences panel event (Women’s Network);

- Tom Riordan in Conversation with the Men’s Health Network (Men’s Health Network);

- Women’s healthcare: ‘Ask the historians’ session (History Network);

- Reflections from clinician and social worker network members on working as mental health professionals (Social Worker Network and Clinicians Network);

- ADHD at work: How it affects us and what helps us (ADHD Staff Network);

- Mental Health Awareness Week – Higher Executive Officer-Senior Executive Officer Network Event (Higher Executive Officer-Senior Executive Officer Network); and

- From Higher Executive Officer to Senior Executive Officer: How to progress across grades (Higher Executive Officer-Senior Executive Officer Network).