Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will extend the Children’s Hospice Grant for children’s palliative care in England beyond 2024–25.

The Department and NHS England recognise the important role children and young people’s hospices play in the delivery of high-quality, personalised palliative and end of life care for children, young people, their families and those important to them.

At a national level, NHS England supports palliative and end of life care for children and young people through the Children and Young People’s hospice grant. It has confirmed that it will be renewing the grant for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million of funding for children’s hospices, using the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24. Details of 2025/26 funding will be confirmed in due course.