PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
Children’s hospice funding (10 October 2022)

That this House celebrates the work of children’s hospices, which provide vital care and support to seriously ill babies, children, young people and their families; welcomes important progress made in funding for children’s hospices in recent years by NHS England, including a planned increase in the Children’s Hospice Grant to £25million by 2023/24; is concerned that NHS England is yet to commit to keeping the grant in place beyond 2023/2024; regrets the wide variation in local NHS funding for children’s hospices in England and the negative impact that removing the NHS England Children’s Hospice Grant could have on lifeline care and support; and calls for the grant to be protected and extended beyond 2023/24.

Sponsored by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)