Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 79012

Hospices: Children

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Shivani Raja

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce the variation in integrated care board (ICB) funding for children's hospices; and if he will commit to holding ICBs to account for the way in which they (a) commission c

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, to meet the needs of their local populations. To sup...

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