Question follow-through · 24205

Palliative Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 15 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 17 Jan 2025
Answer: 28 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline

15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. ICBs are responsible for commissioning of palliative and end of life care services to meet the needs of their local populations. This promotes a ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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