Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 12 July 2018 to Question 162133 on Hospices: Children, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for the Children’s Hospice Grant; and if he will make a statement.

No specific assessment has been made. The Children’s Hospice Grant is awarded annually and administered by NHS England. During 2016/17, NHS England worked with Together for Short Lives, the leading children’s end of life care charity, on a consultation on allocation method for the grant in 2017/18. All children’s hospices were invited to participate in the consultation.

Following the consultation, NHS England decided to maintain the grant funding at its then current level of £11 million per year for 2017/18 and 2018/19, and review the grant allocation again in 2019/20.