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Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the planned £29 billion annual increase in the NHS budget over the next three years will be allocated to children’s palliative care services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
4 Sept 2025
Answer
12 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the planned £29 billion annual increase in the NHS budget over the next three years will be allocated to children’s palliative care services.

  2. 4 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Palliative care services, including for children, are included in the list of services that integrated care boards (ICBs), including the Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, must commission.To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory gu...

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