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Hospices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support hospices.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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

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  1. 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.

  2. 25 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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