Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 73774

Hospices: Children

Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 11 September 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's funding for children’s hospices.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. ICBs are responsible for the commissioning of palliative care and end of life care services, including from children’s hospices, to meet the need...
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