Question follow-through · 30719
Hospices: City of Durham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices in City of Durham constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices in City of Durham constituency.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
We are supporting the hospice sector with a £100 million capital funding boost for adult and children’s hospices in England to ensure they have the best physical environment for care. We are working at great pace to get this year’s funding to hospices as ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospices: Finance
4 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to distribute the second tranche of hospice funding based on (a) levels of need and (b) areas of deprivation.
Autism: Diagnosis
20 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of autism assessments.
NHS: Crimes of Violence
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of (a) harassment and (b) abuse of NHS staff.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: Inspections
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Care Quality Commission plans to inspect medical care services at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.
Cancer: Medical Treatments
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure NHS trusts consistently meet the 62 day target for starting cancer treatment.
Cancer: Medical Treatments
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) continuity of care in cancer treatment pathways, (b) assigning named points of contact and (c) back-up contacts for all patients.
Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender Independent Review
2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he had discussions with transgender individuals on the Sullivan Review.
Hospices: Contracts
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospice contracts reflect the (a) cost of the services they provide and (b) needs of their local populations.
Hospices: Finance
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that hospices receive the required funding to increase staffing wages in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
Hospices: Finance
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fund the specialist palliative care provided by hospices.
Palliative Care: Equality
15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable provision of palliative care in England.
Developmental Language Disorder
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered requesting the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to set national clinical guidelines for developmental language disorders.