Hospices: Children
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2026 to Question 123423 on Hospices: Children, how much has NHS England advised integrated care boards to give to each children's hospice in 2026-27 financial year.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
NHS England has informed all integrated care boards (ICBs) of their total allocation for children and young people’s hospices for 2026/27, amounting to approximately £27 million. Decisions on the distribution of this funding to individual hospices rest with ICBs, in line with the NHS England’s devolved commissioning arrangements.
The Department does not hold a centrally consolidated breakdown of allocations to individual children and young people’s hospices, so is therefore not able to publish this information.
A similar total allocation, adjusted for pay inflation, will be made available in each of the subsequent two years, 2027/28 and 2028/29. Communications regarding future allocations will be sent once the 2026/27 process is complete.
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