Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Darren Jones and Freddie van Mierlo

Tuesday 4th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Freddie van Mierlo (Henley and Thame) (LD)]

T3. Oxfordshire has no night-time cover for palliative care, which means that patients must dial 111 and wait hours for urgent pain relief to arrive. Will the Minister commit to increasing funding to the Department of Health and Social Care so integrated care boards, including the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB, can deliver palliative care round the clock?

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Darren Jones)]

This Government, as the hon. Member will know, has already given £26 billion of additional funding to the national health service and additional funding to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for social care. We know that we have more to do. The Government are working hard on that and will set out further details in due course.