Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 64234

Palliative Care: Children

Tabled: 1 July 2025

Answered: 7 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Charlotte Cane

Liberal Democrat — Ely and East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that integrated care boards (a) commission children’s palliative care and (b) fund children’s hospices in (i) an equitable and (ii) a sustainable way.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

Palliative care services, including children’s palliative care services, are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising pall...

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