Hospices: Finance
Commons · Question 33206 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21470 on Hospices: Charitable Donations, if he will provide financial support to hospices to directly cover declining charitable incomes.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 3 Mar 2025
Integrated care boards are responsible for the commissioning of palliative and end of life care services, to meet the needs of their local populations. Most hospices are charitable, independent organisations which receive some statutory funding for provid...