Question follow-through · 92731
Palliative Care: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce variation in the approaches of commissioners in meeting the local population's needs for palliative and end of life care services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 13 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
19 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce variation in the approaches of commissioners in meeting the local population's needs for palliative and end of life care services.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative care services to meet the reasonable needs of their population. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifications.This further c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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