Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to help support hospices that are unable to afford their energy bills.

As palliative and end of life care, including hospice care, is commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs, any assessment of further financial support should be made at a local level.

At a national level, NHS England have released £1.5 billion additional funding to ICBs to provide support for inflation, with ICBs deciding how best to distribute this funding including to palliative and end of life care providers such as hospices. This is in addition to the support provided by government through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme and the new Energy Bill Discount Scheme.