Question follow-through · 66786
Palliative Care: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the (a) sustainable funding and (b) fair commissioning of (i) hospice and (ii) palliative care services take into account the higher cost of delivering services in
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the (a) sustainable funding and (b) fair commissioning of (i) hospice and (ii) palliative care services take into account the higher cost of delivering services in
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jul 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifications. The statutory guidance states that ICBs mu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Civil Society: Health Services
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Dental Services: Expenditure
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on primary care NHS dental services per head of population in England in real terms in each of the last 10 years (a) inclusive and (b) exclusive of the patient charge revenu
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21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the proportion of NHS funding allocated to dentistry over the remainder of this Parliament.
Dental Services: Finance
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS dental services will receive increased funding from the Spending Review.
Maternity Services: Standards
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of maternity care.
Hospices: Contracts
23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS contracts with hospices reflect the (a) cost of the services provided and (b) the needs of local populations.
NHS: Negligence
23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount paid by his Department in clinical negligence costs.
NHS Trusts: Finance
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8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve early cancer diagnosis rates.
Dementia: Health Services
8 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programme.
Dental Services: Standards
5 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of an increase in urgent care Units of Dental Activity on trends in the level of the provision of routine and preventative NHS dental care.