§ 63. Mr. Ian TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money was allocated by his Department in 1988 to hospice projects.
§ Mr. FreemanMost NHS funding for local hospice projects is from health authorities. However, in the current financial year, the Government have provided
(i) an additional £5.5 million for health authorities towards the extra cost of the nurses' pay award as it affects their contractual and other longstanding arrangements with independent and mainly charitable hospitals and hospices; about a quarter of this sum was for hospices;(ii) a grant of £400,000 to "Help the Hospices" for disbursement to individual hospice projects;(iii) grants of £170,000 to the London Lighthouse and of £256,000 to the Mildmay Mission Hospital, which provide in-patient hospice units for the care of people with AIDS.