Question follow-through · 93012
Hospices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that hospices receive the funding required 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
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 46 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
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that hospices receive the funding required to raise staff pay in line with nationally agreed NHS pay rises.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
Hospices, as independent organisations, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment and, therefore, it is for them to determine what is affordable within the financial model they operate and how to recoup any additional cost...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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