Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 71132

Hospices: Children

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 15 September 2025

Question

Dr Luke Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will adopt the recommendations of the report by Together for Short Lives entitled Overstretched and underfunded: The state of children’s hospice funding in 2025.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

We want a society where every child receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. ICBs are responsible for ...

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