Question follow-through · 66888
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the 10 year health plan enables equitable access to (a) palliative and (b) end of life care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 12 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
11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the 10 year health plan enables equitable access to (a) palliative and (b) end of life care.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the commissioning of palliative and end of life care services, to meet the needs of their local populations. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifica...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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