Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has allocated to hospices in (a) Darlington and (b) England (i) during the covid-19 outbreak and (ii) over winter 2020-21.

Over £150 million in additional funding to the hospice sector was made available between April and July. This will be used to enable hospices to provide more capacity for step down and community care alongside their existing palliative and end of life services.

Further funding of up to £125 million has now been announced in the COVID-19 Winter Plan, published 23 November.

Funding allocation is led by NHS England and NHS Improvement. NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that St Teresa’s Hospice in Darlington received £424,579 between April and July this year. St Teresa’s, like other hospices, will also be eligible to apply for the further additional funding now being made available.