Question follow-through · 85045
Hospices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide hospices with funding to raise staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 17 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
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide hospices with funding to raise staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Nov 2025
Answer published
The impact that National Health Service pay uplifts will have on the hospice sector will depend on the structure of the charity, including the number of employees and salary levels.Independent organisations, such as charities and social enterprises, are f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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