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Children’s Hospices

I am pleased that my hon. Friend has been able to secure the debate on such an important subject. I wonder whether my hon. Friend has shared my experience when speaking to people involved with children’s hospices; there is a feeling of utter frustration. On the one hand, Ministers say that money is available, but the problem appears to be that it is allocated to the primary care trusts. That is where it gets stuck. Only today I was told by the chief executive of a hospice that there needs to be joined-up thinking and joined-up working between the Department and the PCTs. That is where the biggest problem is.