Question follow-through · 78056
Hospices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the funding support for children’s hospices for 2026-27 onwards.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 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
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the funding support for children’s hospices for 2026-27 onwards.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
Children and young people’s hospices do incredible work to support seriously ill children and their families and loved ones when they need it most, and we recognise the incredibly tough pressures they are facing.We are providing £26 million in revenue fun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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