Question follow-through · 114514

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to inform each children's hospice of its share of NHS funding; and what his planned timetable is for this.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Feb 2026
Target answer date
25 Feb 2026
Answer
27 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 20 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is planning to take to inform each children's hospice of its share of NHS funding; and what his planned timetable is for this.

  2. 25 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    Children and young people’s hospices and integrated care boards will be informed of their children and young people’s hospice grant allocations for 2026/27 imminently. Communication regarding future allocations, for 2027/28 and 2028/29, will be sent once ...

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