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Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of reliance of children's hospices on reserves to maintain services.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
1 Jul 2026
Answer
6 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of reliance of children's hospices on reserves to maintain services.

  2. 1 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Earlier this year, NHS England wrote to all integrated care boards (ICBs) requesting an update on the financial stability of hospices in their footprint and the steps being taken to mitigate risks, as a matter of urgency. We have now repeated this exercis...

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