Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of hospice services on trends in the level of hospital admissions in (a) Lewisham and (b) England.

The Department does not hold data that would enable us to make an assessment of the potential impact of hospice services on trends in the level of hospital admissions in Lewisham or England.