§ Mr. Alfred MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what grants were made to children's hospices by health authorities in the financial year 1992–93; if she will list the hospices to which grants were made and the amounts given; what she expects the total amount allocated to such hospices in the current financial year to be; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. YeoThis information is not available centrally.
National health service management executive letter EL(93)14, a copy of which is available in the Library, explains our intention that in future both adult and children's hospices should be supported within the general system of health service funding through the contracts which health authorities and fund-holding general practitioners make with providers in both the NHS and voluntary sectors.