Question follow-through · 19503

Palliative Care: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure palliative care standards are maintained for an aging population.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 17 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure palliative care standards are maintained for an aging population.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The delivery of palliative and end of life care services is a devolved matter.We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in...

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