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Hospices and Palliative Care: Employers' Contributions

Commons · Question 51049 · Tabled 8 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 May 2025

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increases in National Insurance contributions on the financial sustainability of charitable hospices and the delivery of end-of-li

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 20 May 2025

We took the necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, enabling the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26. The employer N...