Question follow-through · 14146
Hospices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue national guidance to reduce variation in children’s hospice funding between ICBs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue national guidance to reduce variation in children’s hospice funding between ICBs.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 2026
Answer published
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative care and end-of-life care services, including children and young people’s hospice services, to meet the needs of their local populations. NHS England has published statutory guidan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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