WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 74866

Palliative Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered introducing multi-year NHS funding for the health elements of children's palliative care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
15 Sept 2025 · 12 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

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has considered introducing multi-year NHS funding for the health elements of children's palliative care.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Palliative care services, including for children, are included in the list of services that integrated care boards (ICBs) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of l...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Health Services

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase funding for research and innovation to improve cancer outcomes.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Ely and East Cambridgeshire

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of inequalities in cancer treatment access in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Ely and East Cambridgeshire

15 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve cancer waiting times in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pharmacy: Rural Areas

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of pharmacy provision in rural areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pharmacy

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that communities have access to local pharmacies.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health: Young People

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of disparities between (a) regions and (b) urban and rural areas in the level of mental health among young people.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Palliative Care: Children

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 74866 on Palliative Care: Children, when he discussed the potential merits of introducing multi-year NHS funding for the health elements of c

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Palliative Care: Children

10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken research on the potential impact of the the introduction of multi-year NHS funding for the health elements of children's palliative care on (a) fiscal and (b)

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

14 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support research into (a) treatments and (b) a cure for postural tachycardia syndrome.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dementia: Diagnosis

21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of removing the relevant target from the NHS Operational Planning Guidance 2025-6 on the dementia diagnosis rate.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dementia: Ely and East Cambridgeshire

21 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of dementia care provision in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Palliative Care: Children

22 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will introduce rolling three-year settlements for the health element of children's palliative care.