Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 107368

Hospices

Tabled: 21 January 2026
Answered: 3 February 2026

Question

Steve Barclay

ConservativeNorth East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the potential implications for his polices of the change in the number of available hospice beds in England over the last 12 months.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
No formal assessment has been made of the potential implications for the Department’s policies of the change in the number of available hospice beds in England over the last 12 months.However, we do recognise the difficult and challenging financial situat...

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