Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase mental health support to people in palliative or end-of-life care.

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are required to commission appropriate palliative and end of life care services to meet the reasonable needs of their population. In line with NHS England statutory guidance and the Ambitions Framework, ICBs should commission services, which develop individualised plans of care that include explicit consideration of the provision of psychological and spiritual support.