Question follow-through · 26029
Hospices: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the number of hospices at risk of (a) reducing services, (b) closing inpatient beds and (c) becoming financially unviable during each of the next three fi
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the number of hospices at risk of (a) reducing services, (b) closing inpatient beds and (c) becoming financially unviable during each of the next three fi
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to the Hon Member for Stratford-on-Avon on 13 July 2026 to Question 16185, which sets out the Government's position on this matter.
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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