Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 76863
Terminal Illnesses: Finance
Tabled: 12 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025
Named DayQuestion
Paulette Hamilton
Labour — Birmingham 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 TimmsThe 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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