4 current inquiries
Inquiries allow committees to consider oral and written evidence on a particular topic. They usually result in the publication of a report.
The First 1000 Days: a renewed focus
Opened 21 March 2025
Community Mental Health Services
Opened 17 December 2024
The 10 Year Health Plan
Opened 13 November 2024
Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction
Report:
Published
On 5 May 2025
Govt. response:
Due by
On 5 July 2025
Opened 31 October 2024
Non-inquiry work
Non-inquiry sessions
Non-inquiry sessions are brief packages of work that will not necessarily result in a report. They may be used to revisit previous inquiry topics or take evidence on a topical matter.
Pre-appointment hearings
People nominated to certain public offices may be examined by a committee to assess their suitability and plans for the role.
Latest news
Gambling-related harms: MPs call on Government to act
The Health and Social Care Committee have written to the Department of Health and Social Care, setting out measures they want the Government to take in order to better protect people from the possible harms from gambling.
8 May 2025
Andrea Leadsom and Michael Marmot to be questioned by MPs on the first 1000 days of life
The Health and Social Care Committee will hold the first evidence session of its inquiry into the first 1000 days of life at 9.30am on Wednesday 7 May.
6 May 2025
Casey Commission reforms doomed to fail, unless Government measures true cost of inaction on social care, say MPs
Reporting on the problems of England’s social care sector, MPs say that too much emphasis is put on the cost of change and not enough consideration is given to the human and financial cost of inaction.
5 May 2025
Upcoming events
Wednesday
18 June 2025
9:15am
Private
9:30am
Public
Black Maternal Health - Oral evidence
18 June 2025
9:30am
- Janet Fyle MBE (Professional Policy Advisor at Royal College of Midwives)
- Sylvia Owusu-Nepaul (Programme Director at Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity & Newborn Partnership)
- Professor Hassan Shehata (Senior and Global Health Vice President at Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG))
10:30am
- The Baroness Merron (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health at Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))
- Kate Brintworth (Chief Midwifery Officer at NHS England)
- Professor Bola Owolabi (Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England)
- Professor Lucy Chappell (Chief Scientific Adviser at Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday
17 June 2025
1:15pm
Private meeting
17 June 2025
Room 5, Palace of Westminster
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