Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the funding available to hospices where charitable donations have fallen during the covid-19 outbreak.

We have worked with HM Treasury and NHS England and NHS Improvement to support hospices, including through the provision of an additional £257 million of grant funding to charitable hospices in England in response to COVID-19. Many hospices have also benefitted from the financial support offered by HM Treasury to all charities and our commitment to either fund directly or reimburse all known personal protective equipment requirements until March 2022.