Children’s Hospice Week 2023

Early day motion 1342, tabled 19 June 2023 by Siobhain McDonagh (Labour). Signed by 18 members.

That this House celebrates Children’s Hospice Week 2023 between 19 and 25 June; recognises that children’s hospices across the UK support thousands of seriously ill babies, children and young people; is concerned by Together for Short Lives’s recent findings that local NHS funding for children’s hospices in England is currently inconsistent and unsustainable, and that NHS England has stated that 2023/24 is the final year of the Children’s Hospice Grant; and calls on NHS England to protect the Children’s Hospice Grant, distribute it centrally as a ringfenced fund as it is now and increase it by the rate of inflation beyond 2023/24.

Signatures by party: Labour 9, Independent 2, Labour/Co-operative 2, Scottish National Party 2, Alba 1, DUP 1, Green 1.