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Hospices: Employers' Contributions

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 902073, tabled on 19 December 2024

Question

Greg Smith
Conservative
Mid Buckinghamshire
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increase to employers' National Insurance contributions on hospices.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Labour
Aberafan Maesteg
Commons

Answered on

8 January 2025

We have taken necessary decisions at the Autumn Budget, which enabled a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department.

In December, we announced a £100 million capital funding boost for adult and children’s hospices and an additional £26 million revenue funding for children’s hospices. The biggest investment in a generation for hospices.

The employer National Insurance contribution rise will be implemented in April 2025 and the Department will set out further details on allocation of funding for hospices in England for next year in due course, including through the NHS planning guidance.

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