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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Care (Baroness Merron) (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 January 2025

Debate

Hospice Funding

Contribution

I thank the noble Lord for his good wishes and extend my new year wishes to everybody in your Lordships’ House. To clarify the situation, this is the biggest boost for hospice funding in a generation. It is £100 million in capital, and there is no intention, as the noble Lord asked, to have any less engagement with the third sector—in this case, the hospice sector. The £100 million in capital is for adult and children’s hospices, and £26 million is confirmed for children and young people’s hospices. This has been widely welcomed. The decision in respect of national insurance perhaps would not have had to be made had the financial situation inherited by this Government been somewhat different.

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