Hospices: Children

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 21 October 2024.

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Photo of Shaun Davies Shaun Davies Labour, Telford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to continue the provision of the Children's Hospice Grant into 2025/26.

Photo of Stephen Kinnock Stephen Kinnock Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

In 2024/2025, NHS England provided £25 million in funding for children and young people’s hospices. This funding was distributed, for the first time, via integrated care boards, in line with National Health Service devolution.

I recently met NHS England, Together for Short Lives, and one of the chairs of the Children Who Need Palliative Care All Party Parliamentary Group to discuss children’s palliative and end of life care, and this funding stream was discussed at length at that meeting. NHS England is currently considering the future of this important funding stream beyond 2024/25.

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