| Heading: |
GP Surgeries and Hospitals: Power Failures |
| Question ID: |
1804553 |
| UIN: |
53747 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5252 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of emergency back up generators in rural (a) hospitals and (b) GP surgeries. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
No national assessment has been made of the provision of emergency backup generators in hospitals and general practice surgeries. It is the responsibility of each National Health Service provider to have resilience plans and procedures in place.Guidance i... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |