Question follow-through · 903389
Hospices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 6 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
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices.
25 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
The hospice sector has been provided with the largest capital spend in a generation - £100 million.We are also providing £26 million revenue funding to support children and young people’s hospices.I recently visited Katharine House hospice in Stafford and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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