Question follow-through · 51167
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the long-term sustainability of palliative and end of life care services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Healthy Start Scheme: Blackpool South · 9 Jun 2025
- Water: Standards · 24 Jun 2025
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
9 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the long-term sustainability of palliative and end of life care services.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dental Services: Expenditure
22 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the NHS budget was spent on primary care dentistry net of patient charge revenue in each year since 2010-11.