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Hospices: Children

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 764, tabled on 18 July 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to (a) reinstate the Children's Hospice Grant for 2025-26 and (b) up-rate that funding in line with inflation.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

31 July 2024

In 2024/25, NHS England provided £25 million in funding for children and young people’s hospices. This was distributed via integrated care boards, in line with National Health Service devolution. We are currently considering the future of this important funding stream beyond 2024/25.

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