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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 5 December 2012.

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Photo of David Cameron David Cameron The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 11:30, 5 December 2012

I am very happy to discuss this issue with my hon. Friend. For many years, my family used a children’s hospice in Oxford that got absolutely no state support at all. What this Government have done is continue with the £10 million going annually to support children’s hospices, and this year we have added an extra £720,000. However, what we want to put in place, and what we are discussing with the providers of both adult and children’s hospices, is a per-patient funding system that would be for all hospices. I think that would bring a greater logic and consistency to how we support this absolutely essential part of both our health service and, I would argue, our big society.