Question follow-through · 21470

Hospices: Charitable Donations

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to monitor the declining charitable income of hospices and the potential link to deterioration in service.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 19 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 7 Jan 2025
Answer: 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to monitor the declining charitable income of hospices and the potential link to deterioration in service.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care. To support ICBs in ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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