Question follow-through · 66886
Palliative Care: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide sustainable (a) funding and (b) commissioning of (i) hospice and (ii) palliative care services in rural areas.
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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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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
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide sustainable (a) funding and (b) commissioning of (i) hospice and (ii) palliative care services in rural areas.
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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