Question follow-through · 77778
Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice and End of Life Care entitled Inquiry into the financial imp
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 29 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
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice and End of Life Care entitled Inquiry into the financial imp
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life. These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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