Question follow-through · 124661
Hospices
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to collect data on hospice bed capacity and service provision at a national level.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Independent Commission into Adult Social Care · 28 Aug 2026
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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
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to collect data on hospice bed capacity and service provision at a national level.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2026
Answer published
The majority of hospices are charitable, independent organisations and, therefore, the Government does not collect or keep data on hospice bed capacity nationally. Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative care services to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Independent Commission into Adult Social Care
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the No10 press release, “PM: Time for problem-solving, not point-scoring, 28 July 2026”, what the planned timetable is for the Government to issue a substantive response to the Casey Com