Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 76863

Terminal Illnesses: Finance

Tabled: 12 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Paulette Hamilton

LabourBirmingham Erdington

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations of the report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hospice and End of Life Care entitled Inquiry in

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department supports people nearing the end of life through the Special Rules for End of Life. These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment o...

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