| Heading: |
Palliative Care |
| Question ID: |
1798611 |
| UIN: |
49295 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5338 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Terry Jermy
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| Asking Member handle: |
cllrterryjermy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@cllrterryjermy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of people requiring palliative care over the next 10 years. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-07 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Currently, approximately 600,000 people die per year in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that up to 90% of deaths could benefit from palliative and end of life care.The Office for National Statistics has projected that, by 2040, approximately 800,000 p... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |