Question follow-through · 46868
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in the number of people that will need palliative care over the next 10 years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 7 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
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in the number of people that will need palliative care over the next 10 years.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
Currently, approximately 600,000 people die per year in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that up to 90% of deaths could benefit from palliative and end of life care.The Office for National Statistics has projected that, by 2040, approximately 800,000 p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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