Question follow-through · 82575
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that people living in each region have equal levels of access to palliative care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 7 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
- Hospices: Contracts · 16 Oct 2025
- Hospices: Finance · 16 Oct 2025
- Medical Equipment · 25 Nov 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.
Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that people living in each region have equal levels of access to palliative care.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. ICBs are responsible for the commissioning of palliative care and end of life care services, to meet the needs of their local populations. To sup...
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.
Hospices: Contracts
16 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospice contracts reflect the (a) costs of provision and (b) needs of local populations.
Hospices: Finance
16 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that hospices receive the necessary funding to increase staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay scales.
Medical Equipment
25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that there is a single, simple and comprehensive scheme providing up-front support with the running costs of medical devices provided by the NHS.